Going over bugs before release...

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

Hello, everyone,

as your should have noticed from the flurry of status change mails that
went by on the gnuplot-developers mailing list (you *are* all subscribed
to that, aren't you?), I went over the currently open bugs and (rather
subjectively) selected those which I would consider release-criticial,
i.e. which really have to be settled one way or the other before we can
confidently claim to have a version worthy of being released to the
general public.

To keep track of which those bugs are, I added a "Group" called
"release_critical" in the bug tracker.  You can narrow down the view of
open bugs by selecting that from the drop-down menu.  If you consider any
of the existing bugs release-critical, you can mark them accordingly.

After going over those I marked one by one, there's currently only one
such bug left (X11 rotated text on unusual platforms...), which I've
assigned to Ethan, since he claimed at one point in time to have
reproduced the misbehaviour and understood the patch, too.

We won't release unless all bugs have either been resolved+closed, or we
have agreed that they're not all that critical right at this time.  E.g. I
personally don't consider lack of any optional feature by any terminal
driver a critical bug that should delay the release.

-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.