[Plplot-devel] Our mail list problems continue, but I am making good progress

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

Yesterday only a subset of my plplot_cvs commit messages got through.  I
posted a support request about this to SF.  Although there has been no
official response and the mail status report there (dated November 28, grrh)
says everything is fine, here is one users response to my support request.

"Alan, this problem is affecting a number of projects - you
were lucky to have things working again for a short while.
We (anjuta) have had no messages through our lists for a
good while :-(

"Monitoring a number of support requests for information on
what might be wrong.

So apparently this problem is not just specific to us.

This is awkward timing for us with the last minute commits and messages
associated with the pre-release period.  Also, with the Christmas break upon
us, I don't expect SF to do much about it for a while.  Anyhow, if you must
get a message through to another developer, use their private e-mail address
as well as plplot-devel.

Also, even though the plplot-cvs list is not reliable, please don't let that
intimidate you from doing well-defined projects before the release.  For
example, I am beginning to make some good progress on getting consistency
between all the standard examples for the various front ends.  The scorecard
is yorick, java, tcl, python, and C all give the same results up to example
7 (aside from some small shifting of letters in some examples which I
believe is due to inevitable floating-point logic in the decision about
letter stroke positioning.) Today, I hope to finish off getting
consistent results for example 8 (only tcl still to do).

My goal is to get consistent results for all examples (excluding the
complicated 14th, 17th, 19th, and 20th examples). I expect finishing this
project will be more time-consuming than what I have done so far up to
example 8. The segfault problems in example 9 for python still need to be
investigated/fixed, and the api extensions and complete example scripts need
to be generated for certain of the remaining examples/front ends.
Nevertheless, because of the progress I have been able to make in the last
couple of days, I still have good hope that I can get this completely done
before the release.

Alan

email: ir...@be...
phone: 250-727-2902	FAX: 250-721-7715
snail-mail:
Dr. Alan W. Irwin
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3055,
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 3P6
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