[gdal-dev] Motion: Promote GDAL 2.5.0 rc1 for release

[Even Rouault]

On mercredi 1 mai 2019 14:22:37 CEST Daniel Morissette wrote:
> I have been wondering about calling it 3.0 as well. How much
> communication about 2.5 are you alluding to?

Here, a few blog posts, twitter, a few bug trackers of other projects. Not a 
massive PR campaign on TV for sure :-)

> 
> Is it more work to relay that 2.5 had a very short lifespan (i.e. never
> released) and then we went straight to 3.0, or to spend the next few
> years explaining why 2.4 and 2.5 are not compatible?

Point taken. I'm going to start a dedicated thread about that.

Even

> 
> On 2019-05-01 13:09, Even Rouault wrote:
> > Sean,
> > 
> >> Did you give any more thought to calling this release 3.0 because of the
> >> breaking changes? Too late for that?
> > 
> > Yes, that would be a bit annoying to rename it now, at least in terms of
> > communication since GDAL 2.5 is already known to be the version with the
> > SRS revamp. Would have been more appropriate to raise this at the time
> > RFC 73 was discussed.
> > 
> > Re-reading our HOWTO-RELEASE, we should indeed probably have named it GDAL
> > 3.0. But even if we add kept the few functions that have been removed, the
> > change of behaviour of a few ones is an interesting case of what is
> > considered part of the API or not...
> > 
> > Even


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