[gdal-dev] GDAL 1.11 release plan

[Even Rouault]

Le mardi 01 avril 2014 21:49:59, DeHaan, Dave a écrit :
> Hello Even,
> 
> I would like to contribute an OGR driver for SAP SQL Anywhere.  We have had
> this code in-house at SAP for some time, but I just received permission to
> contribute it to the GDAL project.
> 
> Unfortunately, it may be several days before we have a patch ready to
> contribute .  If we do not get the patch contributed+reviewed+committed
> before you issue beta-1, is there still a possibility of making it into
> the release of 1.11?

Yes, that might be doable if it is ready before RC1. But it would be usefull 
if you could submit a preliminary version of the patch for a quick review of 
us.

Even

> 
> Thanks,
> Dave DeHaan
> 
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> Subject: [gdal-dev] GDAL 1.11 release plan
> 
> Hi,
> 
> GDAL 1.10 was released about one year ago, so it is time to think about the
> next release. I think we should just call it 1.11 given that there are no
> major architectural changes (although there have been non trivial changes
> in RAT management and for multiple geometry field support, but that only
> impacts core & drivers), and the C API and ABI is still preserved (for
> those who have looked at the other thread, my experiments on unification
> are *not* in trunk). For the details, I have initiated the preliminary
> NEWS :
> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/export/27091/trunk/gdal/NEWS (*)
> There are some mentions to 2.0 in the documentation of new features, but
> I'll end up fixing them to reflect the 1.11 numbering.
> 
> I think we are in a good shape to start the beta phase soon. If people have
> features or bug fixes almost ready that they'd like to be in 1.11, please
> speak up now. Otherwise I suggest issuing a beta-1 at the end of next
> week, give it a week for testing, and depending on the outcome, issue a
> beta-2, or just try RC-1. Unless someone volunteers (the process is fairly
> well documented in HOWTO-RELEASE), I can be release manager for 1.11.
> 
> Any opinion about that plan ?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Even

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