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

[Jeff McKenna]

Sounds good Tom, if you're more comfortable with a Jitsi meeting that is 
fine too (edit the wiki agenda details as you need, and let us know).  I 
just wanted to get the ball rolling on the date and agenda initial draft 
page.

-jeff



On 2020-09-02 6:06 p.m., Tom Kralidis wrote:
> Thanks Jeff.  For the OGC API update given this will be on IRC, I
> guess I can point to
> some slides and an outline of possible MapServer support and implications?
> 
> ..Tom
> 
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 4:49 PM Jeff McKenna
> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>>