[mapserver-users] MapServer Release Schedule

[Steve Lime]

Hey folks: Dan's correct. There was a branch created with the 3.5
release. Luckily there have been no *major* bugs reported/fixed that
would warrant a maintanence release- yet.

The nightly is supposed to be a development snapshot and not a
maintenence release, especially given the pace of the new work as Daniel
said. I guess the main branch should be listed as 3.6 development with
any bugs for 3.5 appearing in the 3.5.0 branch.

Frank's request is certainly valid. Dan, could you pass along your
formula for building the change log to Jamie and the folks at the UMN?
Seems that's where it should live. We should take a close look at the
change log to make sure we haven't missed things that warrant a 3.5.1
maintanence release.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Data & Applications Manager

Minnesota DNR
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St. Paul, MN 55155
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>>> Daniel Morissette <morissette at dmsolutions.ca> 02/12/02 19:27 PM >>>
Frank Koormann wrote:
> 
> I know that coding new features is always more fun than merging bug
> fixes into stable releases. 

Perhaps more fun, but mostly, the new features are required by other
projects which are funding all the nice improvements that you see in
MapServer.  Unfortunately that's reality.

This being said, if there was a group interested in supporting and
applying patches (critical patches only IMHO) to the stable release
while development is happening in the main trunk then that would be
great... we've setup a rel-3-5-0 branch in CVS exactly for that... any
volounteers?


> Therefore I am asking for a commit list for
> the CVS: Distributing "commit messages" from the CVS system would give
> interested users the ability to follow the ongoing development of
> mapserver and the chance to track bugfixes to insert them into running
> systems.
> 

Could be a nice thing to have, mostly interesting for the developers and
less for the users I would think.  But anyway, as an interim solution
there is a ChangeLog file in our download site that is updated
automagically every morning... you might want to have a look:
 http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/mapserver/dl/mapserver_ChangeLog.txt

Daniel
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