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

[Maurice L. <mj...@ga...>]

Alan W. Irwin writes:
 > 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'm a bit skeptical it would have made a big difference.  It seems to me that
with the addition of dyndrivers, there were going to be a lot of configuration
changes regardless of which configuration model we were using.  Certainly the
commits I made personally left me with that impression.  I don't mean to be
throwing water on your enthusiasm, I just think it will take a while for the
payoff from AM/LT (or dyndrivers for that matter) to be really evident.  The
payoff from cool new features, however, can be immediate.

 > 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.

Yeah, I'd feel the most comfortable if the effort were led by Rafael.
Hopefully no time real soon so I can get some other work done. :)

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Maurice LeBrun    mj...@ga...