Revised 4.8 release plan

[Daniel Morissette]

With all the chaos of the last few weeks, we are a bit behind relative 
to our original 4.8 release schedule: we should have had our release 
candidate last Friday and our final release this Friday.

We may have to delay the release by a few days, but I would rather not 
delay it later than Dec 23rd because after that we get into the holidays 
and it becomes really hard to get a hold of people. I also know that the 
new website team has been working real hard to try to get things ready 
in time for our initial planned date, so I would not want to ruin their 
efforts.

So I would like to propose the following revised plan:

4.8.0-rc1 on Thursday Dec 15th
4.8.0 final on Thursday Dec 22nd

Are there major outstanding bugs that you were actively working on and 
that would prevent us from proceeding with those dates?

Also, Steve is working on a "fuzzy brush" last minute addition that 
would allow producing antialiased thick lines and he would like to get 
it into this release. I know that this is clearly a new feature and 
should not be allowed after the feature freeze, but the addition is 
relatively straightforward and would constitute a major enhancement for 
this release. Are there any objections to exceptionally breaking the 
rule and allowing this last minute addition knowing that it is a very 
localized change and has very little chance of breaking anything else 
(just a new function to create fuzzy brushes and probably one new 
mapfile parameter)?

Steve: would you be able to get your change in by Wednesday?

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