Revised 4.8 release plan

[Fernando Simon]

Hi,
    I'm working in a little problem with special type of polygons in 
Oracle Spatial, I intend to finish until monday.
    The dates are fine to me.
    Best regards.

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Fernando Simon
G10 - Laboratorio de Computacao Aplicada - Brazil
http://www.univali.br/g10 - UNIVALI/CTTMAR
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Daniel Morissette wrote:

> 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