Today is release day

[Steve Lime]

Whohoo! I did a bit of research and found that the last "major" release of MapServer was version
4.0 in July 2003 so this is a long time in coming. I wouldn't call most of the 4.x releases minor but this
is a significant event and I'd really like to thank everyone that worked so hard to make it happen:

  - developers and project steering committee
  - the folks working on documentation
  -  those maintaining infrastructure at OSGeo, UMN and elsewhere
  -  QA/QC folks 
  - oraganizations that funded 5.0 development work

You should all be proud. A special word of thanks to Dan for once again guiding us through the release
process- it's a big time commitment.

Again, thanks to everyone for making 5.0 happen.

Steve

>>> On 9/17/2007 at 9:25 AM, in message <46EE8E6A.7060107 at mapgears.com>, Daniel
Morissette <dmorissette at MAPGEARS.COM> wrote:
> As you are all aware, we are going to release MapServer 5.0 today.
> 
> Unless a show-stopper issue is found, I plan to prepare the release 
> around 2pm EDT this afternoon:
> 
> 1- I will tag the SVN source and package the source code release around 
> 2pm EDT today
> 
> 2- I will *branch* the SVN tree as /branches/branch-5-0 later this 
> afternoon... this means that SVN trunk will become version 5.1 and 
> development for 5.2 can start in trunk once the branch is done.
> 
> 3- A release announcement will be sent to mapserver-users, mapserver-dev 
> and mapserver-announce
> 
> I'll be around all day on IRC on #mapserver if anything needs to be 
> discussed.
> 
> Daniel