[mapserver-dev] 5.6.0 release announcement

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Jeff,

+1 for A

I think that it is important that docs get tagged with the release that 
they belong to so it is easy to find the docs for past releases if 
needed. I also think we should not wait for on translations and hold 
things up. I do think that if more translations get done on the docs 
that we should have an easy way to add those translations to trunk and 
whatever needs to be done to add them to the tag and/or get them 
published on the site.

-Steve W

Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Related to the release, is the decision of how to handle the docs for 
> the 5.6.0 release.  For example: Should the trunk/docs be tagged as 
> 5.6.0 now and published live?  And: what should be mentioned in the 
> release announcement?
> 
> I discussed this a bit with Daniel offline, but below were my thoughts - 
> and obviously we must all agree on this in the PSC:
> 
> ***
> 
> I don't think any more progress at all was made on translating the pages 
> into German or other languages.  That said, I believe we can't avoid 
> this issue any more, so we should tag the existing trunk/docs as 5.6.0 
> and publish it to the web.  My thinking is that once it is visible we 
> may attract some contributors for translation.
> 
> Regarding the release announcement, here are a couple of options:
> 
> A. (trunk/docs tagged as 5.6.0)
> 
> "The MapServer documentation team is pleased to announce that structure 
> is in place now to support translation of documents.  Some of the pages 
> are now translated into German, and can be accessed by clicking on the 
> German map icon in the right panel.  The documentation team asks that 
> those volunteers interested in translating documents (in German or other 
> languages) to please send a message to the mapserver-dev email list."
> 
> B. (trunk/docs not tagged as 5.6.0)
> 
> "The MapServer documentation team is continuing to update and maintain 
> documents.  One of the things that the team has been working on is a 
> structure for translated documents.  The structure is now in place in 
> the development version of the site, but volunteers are needed to 
> translate pages into other languages.  The documentation team asks that 
> those volunteers interested in translating documents to please send a 
> message to the mapserver-dev email list."
> 
> 
> -jeff
> 
> 
> 
> 
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