Proposal: MapServer 4.10 release plan

[Pericles S. Nacionales]

+1 for me.

-Perry

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