4.6 release plan

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

Steve,

If you're keen on making GML3L0 into 4.6, I can help you test, etc.

..Tom


> -----Original Message-----
> From: UMN MapServer Developers List 
> [mailto:MAPSERVER-DEV at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of Daniel Morissette
> Sent: Tuesday, 19 April, 2005 20:42
> To: MAPSERVER-DEV at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-DEV] 4.6 release plan
> 
> 
> Steve Lime wrote:
> > As long as you consider a partially implemented feature 
> (like some of 
> > the application specific schema stuff) as being legit to 
> work on post 
> > feature freeze, then I can live with this. I have two siginificant 
> > pieces going on: the GML3/application schema stuff and GEOS 
> > integration. The latter is almost finished, but the former 
> is going to 
> > take some time.  I'll port my changes for WFS GML to the WMS writer 
> > and re-initiate some discussion on a couple of topics:
> >
> >   - controlling WFS output type (GML2/GML3/????)
> >   - WFS schema creation
> >   - changes to WFS queries brought about by finer control of GML 
> > output
> >
> 
> 
> Well, the idea of the feature freeze is that after that date 
> nothing should happen that would significantly break things 
> so that we can reach our objective of fixing all critical 
> bugs and having release quality by the planned release date.
> 
> I have entered those two items in the Wiki page.
> 
> The GEOS thing is the one that would scare me the most but 
> you say that it's mostly done.
> 
> With respect to the GML thing, it affects only WFS/WMS so 
> it's not too bad if it's not finished yet, but would have to 
> be completed in the next 2-3 weeks or otherwise this part may 
> not have been properly tested for the release.
> 
> BTW, I have found that the 6 weeks release cycle with 3 betas 
> has worked really well in the past to produce a quality 
> release in time, but if you or others think that this is too 
> long then we could discuss other ideas.
> 
> Daniel
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