[Plplot-devel] More details about the release

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

I have just reorganized and updated the PROBLEMS file to mark the ending of
the zombie file problems and the completion of my part of the example
consistency work.

The next PLplot issue on my agenda was lots of documentation work, but today
I have already used up all the time I can spare (and then some!) from my
paid job before Saturday morning so I am going to have to let the
documentation updates slide until the next release.

On Saturday morning, my plan is to tag a release candidate, rebuild the
current documentation without changing it, and make an rpm on a RH 7.3
machine that is accessible to me.  The only tests I intend to do that day
are to make sure my Debian box and the RH box produce consistent file
results for a number of drivers.  Once I am happy with those tests, I will
tag the release final, upload the final tarball to SF, and make it
accessible in our file release area to mark the official release.  I plan to
make the actual official announcement of the release by mid-week or so.  The
announcement venue that gets the most hits (by far) is LT, but they tend to
accumulate such announcements during the week and finally post them on the
weekend so there is no real rush to get the announcement out early in the
week.

If you have any CVS plans between now and Saturday morning, please let me
know so I will know what to expect.

Alan

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Alan W. Irwin
email: ir...@be...
phone: 250-727-2902

Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and
Analysis (www.cccma.bc.ec.gc.ca) and the PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org).

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