[Plplot-devel] Are we at the release candidate stage now?

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

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

> It is probably a better idea to announce widely and immediately the
> availability of the release candidate tarballs, even if not all the
> portability problems are fixed.  The sooner the users start trying it, the
> sooner they will found bugs that we have overseen and the higher are the
> chances that we keep our schedule in time. Why wait until April 12th?
>

We have actually already advertised the CVS snapshots (not "release
candidate", please, see below) on plplot-general. I encourage you to make
another announcement there strongly asking for testing help. We have had
nearly 4000 downloads of the 5.2.0 tarball as a result of my last release
announcement on that list so that is a pretty good announcement venue. Also,
I assume you are getting widespread Debian testing exposure through your
package releases there.

BTW, I like the cautious phrasing you use in announcing the Debian packages.
IMHO that caution is still appropriate because we are far from a release
candidate at the moment. I would prefer our team of Unix cross-platform
testers (Joao, Maurice, and me and anybody else lurking on this list) to
finish our tests on the various platforms accessible to us before we start
advertising a release candidate.

What's the consensus here on that issue and much more importantly do the
cross-platform testers think you can finish your testing by 12 April?

Alan
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