>>>>> "Raymond" == Raymond Toy <toy@rtp.ericsson.se> writes:
Raymond> James and I were discussing how the bugs list was getting longer
Raymond> faster than it was getting shorter and he thought maybe we should have
Raymond> a release soon. Very briefly, the plan is to get a list of bugs that
Raymond> "must" be fixed, squash them, create a release candidate, test for
Raymond> some short time, and the release the final version.
A quick reminder. This is what James wrote a while back on his
plans. As far as I know, this still holds. I don't know if we're at
the 5.9.0 or 5.9.2 part. I'm pretty sure we're not at 6.0.0 yet.
Ray
Before 5.9.0
-Comb through mailing list for missed fixes
-Make Maxima pass all current tests with at least
-Platforms
-Linux
-Lisp implementations
-GCL
-CMUCL
-Clisp
-Get xmaxima working
Before 5.9.1
-The Great Source Downcasing
Before 5.9.2
-Test/fix share packages
Before 6.0.0 (and after 5.9.0)
-Finalize directory structure
-Packaging
-RedHat Linux
-Debian Linux
-Windows
-More tests for test suite
-Fix, or at least address, all bugs listed in Sourceforge system
During 6.1.X series
-Work on numerical routines
-GSL vs Fortran to Lisp, etc.
-New GUI work
-Improved Plotting