Re: release plane for 4.0 -- Re: GP_ISVAR, GP_FIT_ERRVARS

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

>On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
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>>>it's time for last-minute checking before 4.0 release, run their own
>>>tests, and report whatever showstoppers they might find.  If we don't
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>>Who are the "people out there", other than the developers?  
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>I'm talking about a publicly announced release-candidate test here.
>I.e. we would post to all the relevant mailing lists and newsgroups
>that there's a release coming up, and whoever feels like it should
>get their package and try it out.  It may be necessary to provide at
>least some prebuilt binaries for platforms that don't routinely come 
>with a C compiler (DOS, Windows and OS/2, e.g.) at SF.net.
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Sounds like a good plan, Hans.

>>3)  Make a release and let the large group of end users find any bugs.
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>That would be the usual approach in open-source projects, "Release early,
>release often".  Unfortunately, releases of gnuplot are tricky enough to
>organize to make this a non-option.
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Oh, that I'm not suggesting.  Yes, releasing a new version often is bad. 
 Neither is not often releasing a new version very good.

Dan