Re: Bug in plotting - 3.0.4 RC1

[Søren Hauberg]

fre, 23 01 2009 kl. 10:52 -0500, skrev John W. Eaton:
> [this part of the discussion moved from the bugs list.  --jwe]
> 
> On 23-Jan-2009, John W. Eaton wrote:
> 
> | On 23-Jan-2009, John W. Eaton wrote:
> | 
> | | If you are talking about the change from root_figure to root, then
> | | it looks to me like that change has already been made.
> | 
> | Oops, I was looking at the wrong sources.  But is it necessary to make
> | this change for 3.0.x?  Does it cause any other trouble if it remains
> | "root figure"?  That is not a regression from previous 3.0.x releases.
> | 
> | I do see that the legend appears to be reversed.  I guess that is a
> | consequence of switching the order of handles.
> 
> May I suggest that in the future we restrict ourselves to fixing only
> regressions in the stable releases?  What I mean is that if the bug is
> new, or was present in a previous stable release, we would fix it in
> the main branch but NOT in the stable branch.  Although this may be
> upsetting to some who report bugs in (say) 3.0.3 and then find that
> the problems are not fixed in 3.0.4, I think that attempting to fix
> bugs that are not regressions tends to move us away from the stability
> we are promising for the stable release series.
> 
> Comments?

If this is not done, then I think it's hard to tell the difference
between the stable and the main branch. So, I agree.

Soren