[Mapserver-dev] 4.2 release plan

[Daniel Morissette]

Hi,

I see a few posts that talk about potential new developments in 
mapscript, and others who are concerned about this delaying the 4.2 
release...

I was trying to work out some details with Steve off-list before setting 
up a formal plan for the 4.2 release, but since things seem to be 
precipitating, here's what I would like to propose.

I would like to propose a quick 4.2 release in the next 2 weeks with 
what's currently in CVS.  I realize that there are still developments 
under way, but it seems to be impossible to catch everybody at a good 
time. The last release was last summer, so if we keep waiting it will 
have been almost a year again between releases. This poses a major 
problem for us (DM Solutions) and possibly for others since the people 
funding enhancements to the software have to wait several months before 
they can deploy their servers.

Things are in very good shape now: the 4.1 CVS seems better than 4.0 on 
many fronts, so I think the timing would be good.

So for now I would like to kindly ask all developers to not undertake 
new developments until we branch the 4.2 release in CVS, and we should 
talk about what we should do about features that are currently under 
development. We were thinking that we could have a quick 4.4 release in 
June in time for the users meeting, so anything that's currently under 
development could make it in 4.4 unless everybody goes crazy making 
major changes again after the 4.2 release, making it impossible to 
release 4.4 in June.

Comments, objections, flames welcome... if there are no objections then 
I propose that I take the lead and coordinate this release with the 
other developers.

Daniel
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  Daniel Morissette               dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca
  DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
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