[mapserver-dev] 5.6.0 release announcement

[Yewondwossen Assefa]

Hi,

 I am also for tagging what we have now as 5.6.0.

I still wish that we had some way of also showing the version in 
trunk/doc somewhere on the site (even if it is not the main 
documentation entry). The docs as the source code are constantly updated 
and I find that waiting for a release to get the up to date version of 
the current state is sometimes not practical for users. I am not sure 
how difficult it is, but wanted to rise again this issue.

regards,



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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