[Plplot-general] PLplot-5.11.0 has been released

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

I am happy to report that the PLplot-5.11.0 release process has been
completed.  For more details such as download location, follow the 
link at plplot.sf.net to the news item concerning this release.  We
encourage everyone on this mailing list to try this new release.  Once
you have downloaded, gpg-verified, and unpacked the
plplot-5.11.0.tar.gz file, you should pay close attention to the
README.release file since that file contains the all-important notes
for this release.

I thank all the developers that helped with this release, and I would
especially like to point out the meta-contribution made by Hazen
Babcock who suggested (and subsequently followed up with a large
degree of practical help with the transition once we made the
decision) that we move from svn to git as our revision control system
during this release cycle.  From my git newbie perspective last year I
felt that transition slowed PLplot development initially as we all got
used to git, but now I have a lot more git experience, I think it is a
tremendous tool to help our development.  For example, I sense our 
pace of development now is much faster than before because of git, and
because of that and because of git features I personally enjoy using, 
I would certainly never want to go back to svn.

Enjoy PLplot-5.11.0!

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin

Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state
implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time
Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting
software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project
(unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net);
and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net).
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