Motion to Release 5.0 (was Re: No IRC meeting tomorrow)

[Umberto Nicoletti]

+1 for me too.

Umberto

On 9/13/07, Steve Lime <Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us> wrote:
> I'll take a crack at the press release and post here for review. Is there an archive of what other
> projects have been doing in this area?
>
> Steve
>
> >>> On 9/13/2007 at 10:39 AM, in message <46E959CF.1010200 at mapgears.com>, Daniel
> Morissette <dmorissette at MAPGEARS.COM> wrote:
> > Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> >>
> >> I don't think it will be helpful to task VisCom, though you might be
> >> able to get some feedback.  There is however a viscom press release
> >> methodology that we can follow at:
> >>
> >>   http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Press_Release_Process
> >>
> >> I found it helpful when I issued the BigTIFF press release a couple months
> >> ago.  As an official OSGeo release we can also do this under OSGeo's name
> >> and using all of Michael's press release accounts.
> >>
> >
> > It would be cool to have a press release at the same time or in the days
> > that follow the official release, but I don't have time to undertake
> > that now. If anyone wants to take this on, then FYI my official release
> > announcement on Monday will consist mostly of the "highlight of
> > features/enhancements" that I had included in the beta1 announcement,
> > plus a few notes about this being the AGG release, where to get the
> > files, etc.
> >
> > You can still find the beta1 announcement here if:
> > http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0707&L=mapserver-users&D=0&P=34909
> >
> > BTW, should this be added to the list of tasks that the release manager
> > should include in the release planning?
> >
> > Daniel
>