Proposal: MapServer 4.10 release plan

[Paul Spencer]

One comment on the proposed release plan ... most of the key folks  
are also involved in FOSS4G and will have limited time before the  
conference to do stuff.  I'm thinking mostly of Jeff here ... and he  
indicated he is taking some vacation immediately after the  
conference.  With this in mind, I think a mid October release is  
probably more feasible (unless you know you won't need the people  
that will be M.I.A).

Cheers

Paul

On 10-Aug-06, at 10:34 AM, Daniel Morissette wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In yesterday's IRC meeting, it was decided to go ahead with a 4.10  
> release as soon as possible to try to stick to the 6 months release  
> cycle that users are expecting and mostly to release the great  
> features that are currently sitting in CVS as soon as possible  
> (curved labels, mapfile includes, etc.).
>
> It was also agreed that this should be the last 4.x release. The  
> next release should be 5.0, likely with a feature freeze in early  
> January 2007. We should start planning for 5.0 in the next few  
> weeks, hopefully before the conference. Will you take the lead on  
> that SteveL?
>
> I volounteered to be the 4.10 release manager and prepared a 4.10  
> release plan at:
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/release_plans/mapserver_4_10
>
> Unfortunately we are too late to have a release before the  
> September conference. The key dates for 4.10 would be:
>
>     * Feature freeze - Monday August 14, 2006
>     * 4.10.0-beta1 - August 17th
>     * 4.10.0-beta2 - August 28th
>     * 4.10.0-beta3 - September 6th
>     * 4.10.0-rc1 - September 22nd
>     * 4.10.0 (final) - September 29th
>
> IMPORTANT: Note the planned feature freeze is this coming Monday  
> August 14th. That essentially means that no new features can be  
> implemented for 4.10 unless you are almost done and can get them in  
> before Monday.
>
>
> I would like to invite the MTSC members to review the relase plan  
> at the URL above and to vote on its adoption.
>
> I start with a +1
>
> Daniel
> -- 
> Daniel Morissette
> http://www.mapgears.com/

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