Hi Mark,

Its not happened -- my plan was probably to make the release
candidates at the start of next week or possibly set them running over
the weekend. If its an important bug fix we could put it in late if
needed of course -- Starjava is separate enough from everything else
that this isn't a problem. What time were you expecting your bug fix?

Sarah

On 3 May 2018 at 11:24, Mark Taylor <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Sarah,
>
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2018, Mark Taylor wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 8 Apr 2018, Mark Taylor wrote:
>>
>> > Sarah et al.,
>> >
>> > On Fri, 6 Apr 2018, Peter W. Draper wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Thu, 5 Apr 2018, Sarah Graves wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > I'd like to finally make a release candidate for 2018A available for
>> > > > testing, hopefully next week some time. This will (hopefully) be built
>> > > > on Centos 6, Centos 7, Ubuntu 17.10 and OSX, as we discovered some
>> > > > library version issues for users on very up-to-date linux systems. I'm
>> > > > still having trouble with the Perl modules in the Ubuntu build, so
>> > > > that one may end up being dropped.
>> > > >
>> > > > Does anyone have any imminent work they would like us to delay for?
>> > > > otherwise we'll create the release branch asap.
>> > > >
>> > > > Starjava -- normally we pick specific tags for Topcat and Splat -- so
>> > > > please let us know which ones we should use!
>> > > >
>> > ...
>> > > Hi Sarah,
>> > >
>> > > I've nothing ready for release, so no reason not to go ahead from my
>> > > perspective.
>> > >
>> > > Re: SPLAT, Mark there are updates on Mar 26 (feb79b8 and earlier) that I'd
>> > > like to see in the release. Do they fit in with your release state?
>> >
>> > I will be making a TOPCAT/STILTS release before, probably just before,
>> > Gaia (the other Gaia) DR2, which is April 25th.  So a starjava tag
>> > at or after that date would be good for me.
>> >
>> > However, if you want to go ahead with 2018A earlier than that
>> > requires, fair enough.  I would prefer not to snapshot starjava
>> > after the SPLAT commits Peter mentions, since there are various
>> > partially completed/tested/documented features on master right now.
>> > In that case I think it would be best to branch from topcat-4.5-1
>> > and cherry-pick the relevant SPLAT commits (3ea420d1 and feb79b8?)
>> > if that's OK by others.
>>
>> Not sure if I've missed the boat, but as far as I'm concerned,
>> the new starjava tag topcat-4.6 would be good for release.
>
> what's the latest on this?  I may be making another (bugfix and
> minor feature) topcat release in the reasonably near future.
> Has the starlink release already happened, if not is there a
> deadline it's worth me thinking about hitting?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark
>
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East Asian Observatory/JCMT
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