[Plplot-devel] Finalized plans for 5.14.0 freeze date, testing period, and release

[Alan W. I. <Ala...@gm...>]

On 2018-09-23 18:56-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> I continue have a large list of different topics I would like to work
> on for PLplot, but, on the other hand, comprehensive tests are looking
> good (at least on Debian Buster) right now, and it has been much too
> long since our last release (mostly because of the "new computer" and
> "new distro version" issues I have been encountering).  So I plan to
> spend the next several weeks working on the most urgent development
> topics I have a good chance of finishing before the soft freeze, with
> a proposed date of the freeze near the end of October followed by a
> testing and debugging period with the actual release of 5.14.0
> occurring roughly in mid November.  Please let me know if the general
> timing of that soft freeze, testing period, and subsequent release
> will cause you any issues with development topics you would like to
> push before the release of 5.14.0.  But if I don't hear any strong
> objections along those lines, then later this week I plan to finalize
> that soft freeze date as October 27th (to be definite and to place it
> on the last Saturday in October).

This is official notice that I will be going ahead with this plan.  In
particular, the soft freeze date has now been finalized as of October
27th.

Alan
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