[Plplot-devel] Deadline for 5.1.0 is Monday 8 AM PST = 16:00 UT

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

Hello everybody.  Since our efforts to release 5.1.0 seem to have stalled,
I'm reinitiating the test/release plan.  Please get all your final checkins
that you want included in this release finished by the hard deadline of 8
AM PST (= 16:00 UT) Monday at which time the final release testing will
commence.

Here is the new plan (thanks to Geoffrey for suggesting this).  On Monday 8
A.M PST I will tag CVS HEAD with v5_1_0_rc1.  This will allow me to go about
my testing business while you guys use CVS any way you like. It also allows
any of you to obtain exactly the version I am testing (in case of an
emergency where I absolutely need your help) regardless of subsequent CVS
activity.  Thus, with this new plan there is no CVS freeze at all, just a
deadline if you want your stuff included in 5.1.0.

Assuming all my tests go well ("well" here means that the results should be
as good as my tests for 5.0.4 so I won't be treating any of our known bugs
for 5.0.4 as release critical), I will simply ignore anything you put into
CVS after 8 AM Monday and retag my non-updated local copy as v5_1_0_final
after the completion of the tests and just before the 5.1.1 release.

Alan

email: ir...@be...
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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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