[postgis-devel] [PostGIS] #1472: Get out a tagged release

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#1472: Get out a tagged release
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 Reporter:  robe        |       Owner:  pramsey      
     Type:  task        |      Status:  new          
 Priority:  medium      |   Milestone:  PostGIS 2.0.0
Component:  management  |     Version:  trunk        
 Keywords:              |  
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 It seems we are not brave enough to stamp a tagged release as alpha. Not
 sure why the hesitation. At this point I'll take anything as long as its
 tagged.  Forget about feature freeze, we can keep on making changes till
 the end and just push anything we don't get to to the next version as long
 as people have a clear idea of whether they need to dump reload and what
 things are very stable.

 However I am concerned about the number of people who I have come across
 that are using 2.0 in production.  I think we owe it to them for their
 bravery to at least start getting out some tagged versions so that when it
 comes time to release 2.0, everyone will know if they need to do a full
 dump /restore and our dump restore can account for people upgrading from
 non-production releases.

 It will also allow us to stream line the upgrade process a bit by checking
 version numbers and conditionally put in things we need to be done for one
 alpha and not another. Which will probably solve strk's issue with
 aggregates as I do think we should only conditionally drop / create
 aggregates if needed.

 Also doing things like making sure our tar balls etc are in a state where
 package managers can use them without fuss. Greg Troxel has already
 started to do this and outlining issues (thanks Greg).

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/1472>
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