[postgis-devel] PSC Vote: Release PostGIS 3.1.0alpha1 in 1 to 2 weeks

[Regina Obe]

> Hopefully this will encourage packagers spin a release if we have a 
> release tag.  Chris Berg said debian absolutely needs a release tag 
> before they will provide a package, but he things Bas would be willing 
> to for an alpha.  I haven't asked Devrim, but I think he follows the 
> same rule -  NO TAG NO PACKAGING

> Pre-releases of postgis are generally packaged as well, they just stay in experimental until the final release. You can see this for the 3.0
> (pre-)releases:

 > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/postgis

> For the Debian package the tarballs on download.osgeo.org are monitored, so if pre-releases are only tagged it won't be acted upon (without manual intervention).

> Kind Regards,

> Bas

Great :)  When I meant tag I meant the full thing of deploying it to download.osgeo.org including the docs and listing on our website in releases section as we did with the 3.0 alphas, betas, and RCs

Thanks,
Regina