[Proj] PROJ 5.0.0RC6

Jeff McKenna jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
Thu Mar 1 11:03:48 PST 2018


Anyway sorry that I caused all this grief with my testing.  Congrats on 
this massive release!!

-jeff



On 2018-03-01 2:52 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Actually I assumed that this would call for an immediate RC7 release.
> (as it affects so many projects downstream, for [unfortunately] the most
> translated projection today).  -my thoughts, jeff
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 2018-03-01 2:18 PM, Kristian Evers wrote:
>> I’ve been thinking about this all day. Initially I was planing to add the fix to the map server problem, but it is not
>> particularly smart to add stuff without an RC I guess. The current release candidate seems to behave quite well,
>> apart from that one thing which has a known work-around. I’ll plan for a patch release around April 1st. If the
>> number of reported bugs is low I’ll consider not issuing 5.0.1.
>>
>> I’ll get to work on packing 5.0.0.
>>
>> /Kristian
>>
>>> On 1 Mar 2018, at 19:07, Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 03/01/2018 06:39 PM, Kristian Evers wrote:
>>>> Well, I was sort of going to play It by ear with regards to patch releases. 5.1.0 will be around June 1st.
>>>> But maybe it isn’t such a bad idea to already schedule the first pure bug-fixing release in a month time or so.
>>>> Jeff’s (well.. my bug, discovered by Jeff) could then be applied in that release instead of sneaking
>>>> It in the final release. The vote promoting RC6 to final has more or less passed on the MetaCRS list
>>>> less than an hour ago.
>>>>
>>>> See the release schedule here: https://github.com/OSGeo/proj.4/milestones?direction=asc&sort=due_date&state=open
>>>>
>>>> What are your thoughts on that?
>>>
>>> The next release in June is quite reasonable, although not strictly a
>>> bugfix release.
>>>
>>> If there aren't many regressions reported before that time, leaving the
>>> planned release dates as-is is probably fine.
>>>
>>> Otherwise scheduling a bugfix release before that time, 4-6 weeks after
>>> the 5.0.0 release, is probably a good idea.
>>>
>>> Kind Regards,
>>>
>>> Bas
>>



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