[Plplot-devel] Where do we go from here?

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

I understand that Geoffrey is still preparing his state of the union message
(or speech from the throne here in Canada.)  But in light of my semi-humorous
remark about the next release in my last post, I decided to jump start that
discussion.

My preference for the next release is I would like to see a continued effort
at the small bug fixes, documentation, example consistency, Java API, etc.,
mixed with at least one major improvement. Furthermore, I believe that major
improvement should be an AM/LT configuration scheme.  It did not escape my
notice that a substantial fraction of our commits since 5.0.4 had to do with
configuration changes, and I think that ratio would be greatly reduced with
AM/LT once we had overcome the learning curve.  I wouldn't feel comfortable
leading the AM/LT project, but once Rafael (or some other knowledgeable
volunteer) had time to lead that effort, then I would be willing to spend
some time on a CVS branch helping him with testing the new scheme. Once my
AM/LT leader and I were satisfied, I would hope the rest of the developers
would give the AM/LT configuration a try so that we were all comfortable
bringing it to CVS head for final refinement.

So I am looking for an AM/LT leader I could follow.  Rafael would be ideal
for this role (and we have worked well together before), but he may not be
able to make a time commitment in the near future so we may have to rely on
somebody else.

Alan

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Dr. Alan W. Irwin
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 3P6
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