[postgis-devel] Release notes for 1.3.4

Mark Cave-Ayland mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk
Tue Nov 25 05:11:11 PST 2008


Obe, Regina wrote:

> Mark sorry we took unfair advantage of you being in another timezone and
> continent.
> 
> I figured Paul was getting impatient and hmm the AddGeometryColumn
> function thing is a critical enough function that I figured if we
> changed it we should probably push out another RC.  Not that we would
> screw up mind you, but call me overly cautious.

Oh I totally agree with you; at RC stage you should be aiming for the 
following goals:

	- No new features
	- Resolve any regression tests failures, making the minimum
	required changes
	- Resolve any crashers, making the minimum required changes
	- Update documentation/error messages

And I'm fairly sure I put out an email saying a while back saying 1.3 
branch should only be used for bugfixes. Reading back through the GBT 
emails, I guess it's not particularly apparent which version I/we were 
talking about. But for me there would have to have been a pretty good 
reason to change those stored procedures just before a release.

It would have been nice to get the GBT#72 quick-fix into 1.3.4 since the 
cost was only a couple of elog()s in the C code to resolve something 
that could confuse new users, plus it's the type of change I feel 
doesn't need another RC. And yeah, I did feel a little upset that I had 
no input into the decision.

> Does voting work on this list kind of like the way the Presidential
> Elections work?  "There is no way McCain can win now, lets go have our
> celebration party." or does one dessenting vote overrule all approving
> votes?  I figure dissenters rightfully can overrule.

I think this is part of the problem; currently we don't have an 
"official" core team, development guidelines, or an official procedure 
for release. I've tried bringing this up on the list a couple of times 
recently, but no-one has been interested enough to reply :(


ATB,

Mark.

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