Revised 4.8 release plan

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 12/12/05, Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca> wrote:
> 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

+1

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

I am investigating:
  http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1566

> 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?

I am ok with this as long as Steve says it's pretty safe.

Best regards,

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