[gdal-dev] GDAL 1.11 release plan

Daniel Morissette dmorissette at mapgears.com
Fri Mar 28 03:47:38 PDT 2014


+1

Daniel

On 14-03-25 5:37 PM, Even Rouault wrote:
> 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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