Motion to Release 5.0 (was Re: No IRC meeting tomorrow)

[Steve Lime]

I'll take a crack at the press release and post here for review. Is there an archive of what other
projects have been doing in this area?

Steve

>>> On 9/13/2007 at 10:39 AM, in message <46E959CF.1010200 at mapgears.com>, Daniel
Morissette <dmorissette at MAPGEARS.COM> wrote:
> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>> 
>> I don't think it will be helpful to task VisCom, though you might be
>> able to get some feedback.  There is however a viscom press release
>> methodology that we can follow at:
>> 
>>   http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Press_Release_Process 
>> 
>> I found it helpful when I issued the BigTIFF press release a couple months
>> ago.  As an official OSGeo release we can also do this under OSGeo's name
>> and using all of Michael's press release accounts.
>> 
> 
> It would be cool to have a press release at the same time or in the days 
> that follow the official release, but I don't have time to undertake 
> that now. If anyone wants to take this on, then FYI my official release 
> announcement on Monday will consist mostly of the "highlight of 
> features/enhancements" that I had included in the beta1 announcement, 
> plus a few notes about this being the AGG release, where to get the 
> files, etc.
> 
> You can still find the beta1 announcement here if:
> http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0707&L=mapserver-users&D=0&P=34909 
> 
> BTW, should this be added to the list of tasks that the release manager 
> should include in the release planning?
> 
> Daniel