[gdal-dev] Early GDAL 2.4.0 release ?

[Sean Gillies]

Hi Even,

Many of the tasks in
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/edit/master/gdal/HOWTO-RELEASE are beyond me
(looks like it needs root on the osgeo server and Maven knowledge) but I
signed myself up for writing the NEWS file in
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/1119.


On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 10:00 AM Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
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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