Re: [Plplot-devel] Is PLplot dead?

[Rafael L. <ra...@la...>]

* Hazen Babcock via Plplot-devel <plp...@li...> [2024-09-21 01:11]:

> I'm still waiting for Alan (Irwin) to chime in, but this is looking 
> less and less likely as time goes by.

The last commit by Alan was done in July 2021. Its last post in 
plplot-devel was done in February 2023. After that, he vanished without 
sending a retirement message. I hope he is doing well.

Alan was the de-facto leader of the project for over two decades.

> I still have admin on this project on Sourceforge and can add / remove 
> developers and / or admins if anyone is really interested in taking 
> over the project. I probably won't be much help beyond that, I just now 
> tried to run the tests for this project and realized that I don't even 
> remember how to do this or where this is documented.

The tests are automatically run when the Debian package for PLplot is 
built, see: 
https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/plplot/-/tree/master/debian/tests?ref_type=heads

This is how I discover new bugs in PLplot, from time to time, when 
languages evolve.

> Also, some of the open merge requests seem to be prior to when Alan 
> vanished, so it might be worth figuring out why he did not accept them 
> before merging them.

Another question: does anyone know who is behind the domain name 
plplot.org? In the who.is database, the registrant, administrative, and 
technical contact information appears as “REDACTED FOR PRIVACY”: 
https://who.is/whois/plplot.org

Best,

Rafael