[gdal-dev] Early GDAL 2.4.0 release ?

[Daniel Morissette]

+1 for me. I like your plan.

Daniel


On 2018-11-27 11:59 a.m., Even Rouault wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been considering an early GDAL 2.4.0 release for the end of this year
> instead of the traditionnal mid-April / May target.
> 
> The rationale is that the work related to the GDAL/PROJ SRS revamp effort (aka
> "GDAL barn": https://gdalbarn.com/) will probably require non-null integration
> work from GDAL users, which will unnecessarily delay the "time-to-market" of
> features currently in GDAL master.
> 
> I've just began integrating the PROJ changes in a GDAL branch of mine and the
> current and future changes can be classified in the following categories:
> - for sure: behaviour changes. exportToWKT() / exportToProj4() will for
> example return different strings. Most of the time equivalent, but nonetheless
> different, which can break other software unit tests
> - probable: some OGRSpatialReference methods / OSR functions might be removed,
> or become no-operation
> - uncertain at this point: impact of being axis order and unit compliant with
> the CRS definition from the authority.
> 
> I'd like the GDAL 2.5.0 release that will integrate the GDAL barn work to
> still be scheduled for mid-April / May date, and with my branch being
> hopefully ready for being merged into master in January.
> 
> A temptative schedule for 2.4.0 might be:
> 
> - December 14th: GDAL 2.4.0RC1 (I believe master is mature enough to go to RC
> stage directly, with no/very few changes affecting backward compatibility, but
> this is just from memory. The updated NEWS would help to confirm, but creating
> it is the bulk of the release work), likely coupled with a GDAL 2.3.3RC1 that
> would be the final point release for the GDAL 2.3 series
> 
> - December 21th: GDAL 2.4.0final
> 
> Thoughts ? Ah, and the release manager role is still open for volunteers (or
> any help, particularly updating NEWS, would be appreciated)
> 
> Even
> 


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