[Plplot-devel] I plan to release on Saturday unless a few more days delay would help you

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

Hi Phil:

Since we have been delaying the release for your wxwidgets fix in any
case for the last several weeks, I decided to use that time to rewrite
the advanced chapter of our DocBook documentation.  However, yesterday
I finished a particularly tricky section of that (on color management)
and there are some more changes I need to do on the 3D plotting
section, but that is absolutely all I intend to do on the
documentation for this release.  I therefore hope to go ahead with
this release on Saturday in the interest of (a) getting it off our
collective backs, (b) dropping the push freeze so that normal
development can continue, and (c) making all the work we have done in
this release cycle readily available to our users.

So what progress have you made on the 4 wxwidgets areas you
were planning to work on for these last several weeks?

Those areas were (in decreasing order of how critical to the release
they are)

1. A paragraph in README.release summarizing the wxwidgets changes
since PLplot-5.11.1.

2. Adjust the wxwidgets device driver for the wait/eop split
in plbuffer that Jim implemented some time ago and circulate that
patch.

3. Thorough re-test of wxwidgets using that patch on all platforms
(with aid from Pedro and me) and push it if those tests are good.

4. Update our DocBook documentation with regard to wxwidgets.

If it turns out you cannot do anything on any of the above in a timely
manner because of other time pressures on you, I would strongly prefer
to just proceed on Saturday with the release without those wxwidgets
issues addressed. Then once you address at least the first three of
these, I would be willing to make a PLplot bug-fix release (although
there would be some significant git learning on my part required to
figure out how to use the required git cherry-pick command.)

So unless I hear from you that a few more days delay on the release
would be a significant benefit to you, I plan to just go ahead with the
release on Saturday.

Alan
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