plplot-devel

[Plplot-devel] Task manager

[Geoffrey F. <fu...@ga...>]

I've added a task in the SF project page, for the Java binding
development, and dumped a few items into it which I think capture the
spirit of some of the recent discussion.

I wonder if I could persuade other team members to start documenting
with the task manager, at least your views of what /needs/ to be done,
inv arious areas.

I don't view this as a life-or-death thing, but I'm trying to get more
organized here at work, and was thinking about how we could be
similarly more coordianted with PLplot development.  Since SF has some
facilities for at least low-grade ambition tracking, why don't we see
if we can put it to use.  I for one feel that a lot of ideas get lost
by virtue of being discussed almost to death, then forgotten.  How
about people start recording work tasks in the task manager, and lets
see if that helps us be a little more disciplined.

Not obligatory by any means, but hopefully people will find some value
in this.

Cheers to all,

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Geoffrey Furnish         fu...@ga...

Re: [Plplot-devel] Task manager

[<jca...@in...>]

On Thursday 25 October 2001 00:42, Geoffrey Furnish wrote:
| I've added a task in the SF project page, for the Java binding
| development, and dumped a few items into it which I think capture
| the spirit of some of the recent discussion.

Nice. But how can one add tasks or add items to a task? Only=20
administrators can do it?

Other usefull think is the "bugs" entry. One should use it! Most of=20
the time I forget to annotate bugs when I detect them, and then I=20
just forget them. By the way, we have a patch there!

Joao

Re: [Plplot-devel] Task manager

[Geoffrey F. <fu...@ga...>]

Jo=E3o Cardoso writes:
 > On Thursday 25 October 2001 00:42, Geoffrey Furnish wrote:
 > | I've added a task in the SF project page, for the Java binding
 > | development, and dumped a few items into it which I think capture
 > | the spirit of some of the recent discussion.
 >=20
 > Nice. But how can one add tasks or add items to a task? Only=20
 > administrators can do it?

Looks like only admins can add a new sub project.  I /assume/,
although I have not tested, that any logged-in developer can add a
task to a sub project (topical task list).  Click on the "java binding
development" task list, and you should see a way to add a new task.
If you want me to make you a new sub project to which you can
associate tasks, let me know.  If developers who are not admins want
admin privilege in order to reach some of this project tracking
machinery, let me know.

 > Other usefull think is the "bugs" entry. One should use it! Most of=20=


Mmm.  Thanks for pointing this out too.

 > the time I forget to annotate bugs when I detect them, and then I=20=

 > just forget them. By the way, we have a patch there!

--=20
Geoffrey Furnish         fu...@ga...

Re: [Plplot-devel] Task manager

[Joao C. <jca...@in...>]

On Thursday 25 October 2001 07:12, Geoffrey Furnish wrote:
| Jo=E3o Cardoso writes:
|  > On Thursday 25 October 2001 00:42, Geoffrey Furnish wrote:
|  > | I've added a task in the SF project page, for the Java binding
|  > | development, and dumped a few items into it which I think capture
|  > | the spirit of some of the recent discussion.
|  >
|  > Nice. But how can one add tasks or add items to a task? Only
|  > administrators can do it?
|
| Looks like only admins can add a new sub project.  I /assume/,
| although I have not tested, that any logged-in developer can add a
| task to a sub project (topical task list).  Click on the "java binding
| development" task list, and you should see a way to add a new task.
| If you want me to make you a new sub project to which you can
| associate tasks, let me know.  If developers who are not admins want
| admin privilege in order to reach some of this project tracking
| machinery, let me know.

Geoffrey/admins, it would be nice to add a task for each language binding=
s,=20
and another for the library itself (and another for drivers?). After a su=
rge=20
of work I had lots of e-mail to read, and lots of things will be forgoten=
!

Joao

[Plplot-devel] quick bug fix for postscript driver?

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

BTW, for those who have not had a look, the patch Joao pointed out is just a
one-line change.  I am not a driver expert so I am hesitant to apply it.
But I feel it is important for the overall health of the plplot project and
our sanity to give small changes like this high priority because then our
ToDo lists don't get bogged down with zillions of petty details. Thus, would
some driver expert here take a quick look at this and either apply it or not
so we can close the bug?

Thanks.

Alan

Here is the full bug report from some anonymous plplot user:

It seems that the pladv() preserves the pen width.
However, the ps driver reset pen width to default
value.

The following patch is necessary?

diff -u -r plplot-5.0.4/drivers/ps.c
plplot-5.0.4.modified/drivers/ps.c
--- plplot-5.0.4/drivers/ps.c Wed Jun 6 05:01:39    2001
+++ plplot-5.0.4.modified/drivers/ps.c Mon Jul 2 14:52:21 2001
@@ -398,6 +398,7 @@
/* This ensures the color is set correctly at the
beginning of each page */

plD_state_ps(pls, PLSTATE_COLOR0);
+ plD_state_ps(pls, PLSTATE_WIDTH);
}

Re: [Plplot-devel] quick bug fix for postscript driver?

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

Alan W. Irwin writes:
 > BTW, for those who have not had a look, the patch Joao pointed out is just a
 > one-line change.  I am not a driver expert so I am hesitant to apply it.
 > But I feel it is important for the overall health of the plplot project and
 > our sanity to give small changes like this high priority because then our
 > ToDo lists don't get bogged down with zillions of petty details. Thus, would
 > some driver expert here take a quick look at this and either apply it or not
 > so we can close the bug?

Done.

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Maurice LeBrun    mj...@ga...