Re: moving toward a 3.0 release

[Bill Denney]

David Bateman wrote:
> So would you be willing to try to write a backend? Do you know of
> someone who would? How long do you estimate the time needed (taking into
> account that this is a volunteer project) to write such a backend? Sorry
> to be direct, but these need to be answered so that John can fix the
> feature freeze date.
At this point, I can't really volunteer to write a backend.  I really 
just don't have the time to work on it.

I think that octaviz and octplot would probably work for the backend.  
Honestly, I think that finishing the frontend would take about another 
20-30 hours for me, and I think that a backend would take another 10 
hours for someone else.  I could write an SVG backend, but I don't have 
experience writing graphics applications, so I wouldn't want to 
volunteer for anything other than that.

That said, for me to try to find 20-30 hours for the frontend and 
another 10 for the backend would be very difficult right now.  For 
another person to volunteer to do it, if they had a relatively large 
amount of free time, it could be done in two-three weeks.

Bill