[mapserver-dev] MapServer Version 5.4.0 Source Released

[Steve Lime]

I'm not sure I like this restriction, at least not this go round. The dev version was the production 
version up until now so you wouldn't have wanted to make 5.4 changes in the trunk. I think going
forward this makes sense but not when implementing the first time. If so, then we should have
branched a 5.2 version of the website right away and ran the site of it.

Steve

>>> On 4/23/2009 at 8:08 AM, in message <49F06853.9040103 at gatewaygeomatics.com>,
Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
> Howard Butler wrote:
>> The docs are now branched as we discussed at the Toronto sprint.  The 
>> website is currently driven off of 
>> http://svn.osgeo.org/mapserver/branches/branch-5-4/docs/ instead of 
>> ./trunk/docs.  If you need to adjust announcements, make fixes to 
>> documentation, etc, you'll have to do them both in the branch and trunk 
>> -- just like the source code.
>> 
>> http://mapserver.org/MapServer.pdf needs to be preserved for posterity 
>> as our historical 5.4.0 documentation example.  Our release process 
>> needs to be updated to take a snapshot of the current pdf and store it 
>> somewhere on the site as historical docs.
>> 
>> I have also updated the mapserver_docs svn commit group to give them 
>> access to /branches/mapserver-5-4/docs/.
>> 
> 
> I'd like to add that, as we agreed earlier, once the docs are branched 
> they are frozen, as is the source code (meaning no more editing of 5.4.0 
> docs, all doc changes must occur in the trunk).
> 
> I'd also like to take this time to again ask that any documentation 
> updates must include a reference to the version it impacts (e.g. I add a 
> function foobar() in PHPMapScript, the description of that function 
> should include "added in MapServer 5.4.0, this function enables blah...").
> 
> thanks.
> 
> -jeff
>