[Plplot-devel] I plan to release 5.12.0 tomorrow (Saturday)

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

Since Phil has not responded to my question concerning whether a few
more days would help him get his desired wxwidgets changes in, I
assume that sort of release delay would not help him.  Therefore, I am
going ahead with the release process for 5.12.0, and I plan to deal
with the remaining wxwidgets issue(s) post release (and likely with a
bug-fix release rather than full release in the interest of making
Phil's fixes available to wxwidgets users of PLplot in a timely manner
after he makes those fixes available for testing).

N.B. We are now in deep freeze, that is no pushes should be made to
our master branch except in consultation with the release manager
(i.e., yours truly).  And in most cases I will likely say no.  For
example, earlier today I debated about help string updates for our
python and octave bindings that would make those strings consistent
with the latest api.xml changes.  Eventually I decided to push those
(since api.xml is in much better shape now then it was for
plplot-5.11.1) but only after fairly extensive python and octave
testing using the test_diff_psc target (just in the extremely unlikely
event that the changed help strings could somehow screw up the
bindings) and also using the recently updated test procedure in
doc/docbook/README.developers to test those python and octave help
strings.

I still appear to be on schedule for the release of 5.12.0 tomorrow.
For example, I just now finished my last planned update to the release
notes (README.release) so I am roughly half way through the release
process now as detailed in README.Release_Manager_Cookbook.  So it is
going well, but this is a fundamentally unpredictable process so we
will see how soon I will be able to finish this.

Alan
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University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

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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);
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