Re: [matplotlib-devel] matplotlib v1.1.1 (bugfix) rc1 on Thursday

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:58 PM, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:

> I think we are pretty close to cleaning up issues and PRs related to
> v1.1.x, so I'd like to cut the release candidate this Thursday.  Let's
> continue to hammer on closing open issues and pull requests, and flag
> anything that needs to be addressed before the release as
> "release_critical" in the issue tracker.  If there are show stoppers I am
> not aware of, chime in.
>
>
The tarballs for the v1.1.1 release candidate 1 (rc1) are uploaded to and
are available for testing and building binaries


https://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.1.1/

After the binaries are up, I'll send out a notice to the users list
requesting wider testing, but intrepid developers can begin now.

The reference github commit for rc1 is
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/commit/c5593eea91d82559c6e30e999635b93a35a13bc9

There was a heroic effort by Michael Droetboom and Thomas Robitaille in the
last two days to get past the freetype version and platform specific
rendering issues, mainly revolving around anti-aliasing, and we are pretty
close to there, so going forward we can expect almost all of the tests to
pass for almost all of the developers, and have a mechanism for adding
freetype version dependent known fails.  This will make our tests much more
useful.  Thomas in particular did a crazy amount of testing on every
conceivable combination of freetype settings and versions which really
pushed the success of this effort, and Michael stayed right there with him
committing fixes faster than any human could test.

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/779

This will be the last release supporting python 2.4 and in all likelihood
the last of the 1.1.x line, so I'd like to make it rock solid.  Testing
will be appreciated.  For those of you who prefer the github
interface/workflow, I'm opening up an "open thread" issue

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/791

Thanks to all who've contributed -- I'll work up detailed notes for the
real release, hopefully next week.  Russell and Christoph, you should be
able to access to file manager interface directly on sf to upload your
binaries, but let me know if you have any troubles.

JDH