[Mapserver-dev] 4.4 release plan

[Yewondwossen Assefa]

Daniel,

  The stuff I am working on should be commited by the end of this week. 
I am expecting the QA to take few days and then do any needed 
corrections. The final schedule that we have setup is Oct 15th but major 
developments should be over at the beginning of the month.

Later,

Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> 
>>
>> I'm planning to have some degree of FastCGI support working within a
>> couple of weeks, but comprehensive support (within the limits of the 
>> project)
>> wouldn't necessarily be done till the end of October.
>>
>> I will need to know pretty soon whether I should start committing bits of
>> the FastCGI support in the development trunk pre-split or not.
>>
>> If you don't mind aiming for a feature freeze at the end of October, then
>> I think it should be ok to include the fast cgi support otherwise I 
>> should
>> hold it back.
>>
> 
> Well, it's not only my decision: we need to see what's best for 
> everyone. I just know that if we don't initiate the release process at 
> some point then it will be another year before we release something, and 
> this is bad for those who are paying for new features and hence is bad 
> for MapServer general.
> 
> With respect to FastCGI, I realize that you need to make changes all 
> over the place, so I wouldn't want to force you to hold your changes for 
> too long since they may become hard to integrate back in the next dev 
> version... but at the same time I am worried that if you make all those 
> changes just before a release and don't leave enought time for testing 
> then we could end up with a flaky release, or could end up having to 
> delay the release over and over until all issues introduced by all those 
> changes are resolved. I'm not sure what's best.
> 
> Let's see how much work the others (Assefa and Steve mostly) have left 
> to do. Maybe we could branch within 1 week or two if the time and WCS 
> stuff done in time, and then you could start committing FastCGI stuff to 
> 4.5 in early October. Is it an option at all for you to start the 
> FastCGI stuff only in a few weeks, after we branch 4.4?
> 
> Daniel


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