[postgis-devel] Vote to call Feature Freeze, SRID=0, and officially tag the first alpha

dustymugs dustymugs at gmail.com
Tue Dec 20 15:48:56 PST 2011


On 12/20/2011 03:43 PM, Paragon Corporation wrote:
> I think enough people are using PostGIS 2.0.0 that its about time to put out
> an official alpha 1 and also call feature freeze.
>
> By feature freeze, I mean anything that is not alright in our trac will have
> to wait or anything that will require anyone already running the latest
> PostGIS 2.0.0 development to do a full dump reload will also have to wait.
> The only exception is if we find a critical issue that requires us to make
> changes that require a dump reload.
>
>
> +1 feature freeze
> +1 SRID=0 be unknown (hey most of our code is already coded that way and
> more people are whining about how we haven't made an official decision than
> what decision we make.  I suspect many e.g GDAL have already made provisions
> for this change, and many other tools don't even work with unknown SRIDs)
> +1 tag the first official alpha
>
>
> Thanks,
> Regina
>

Does a feature freeze include no more changes to the SQL API?  I'm 
looking to do some cleanup to ST_Clip (ticket #597) as some of the 
parameters don't make sense to me.

+1 SRID = 0

-bborie



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