[mapserver-dev] Reminder of big push now for 8.0 release

[Jeff McKenna]

Thanks for the Doodle responses, the winner is the first timeslot 
(Tuesday the 8th, at 8am Minnesota time).
   time: 
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2020&month=09&day=08&hour=13&min=0&sec=0
   tentative agenda: 
https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/wiki/PSC-Meeting-2020-09-08


-jeff




On 2020-08-26 11:50 a.m., Steve Lime wrote:
> Jeff: I was talking to Tom K. offline about the OGC APIs and he leading 
> a discussion on the topic. It would be good to get a PSC meeting 
> together in a couple of weeks (week of 9/7) and Tom would be the primary 
> presenter. We can touch on other things as well. Sound ok? --Steve
> 
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 1:48 PM Jeff McKenna 
> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     Hi devs,
> 
>     Reminder that we have a big 8.0 release coming up (tentatively set for
>     October 30), and you can see the various tickets/PRs assigned to 8.0 at
>     https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/milestone/54 (this link is often
>     hard to find on the Github interface).
> 
>     I have created a visible release plan page that users can follow
>     (https://mapserver.org/development/release/release-plan-8.0.html) which
>     lists some hard dates (tentative as usual, but gives us a goal)   :
> 
>         Feature freeze : Fri. October 2, 2020
>         8.0-beta1 : Fri. October 9, 2020
>         8.0-beta2 : Fri. October 16, 2020
>         8.0-rc1 : Fri. October 23, 2020
>         8.0 (final) : Fri. October 30, 2020
> 
>     So, in other words, September will be a lot of changes happening, with
>     the goal to start the release process on October 2.   (of course lets
>     see how things go, if the release has to be pushed back to January/2021
>     it is no big deal)
> 
>     Feedback on this plan (and date changes) are welcomed.
> 
> 
>     -jeff
> 
> 
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