[PROJ] Release schedule between version 6.0.0 and 7.0.0

Greg Troxel gdt at lexort.com
Tue Mar 5 06:36:02 PST 2019


Bas Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl> writes:

> On 2019-03-05 15:12, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> I wonder if it makes sense for proj to track the set of depending
>> projects that don't work with 6, with links to the tickets in those
>> projects' trackers.   That may be a step too far.
>
> I've considered this as well, and I think it's a good idea to do this
> centrally instead of each distribution doing it on their own.
>
> We could maintain a list on the GitHub wiki (e.g. PROJ6Compatibility),
> with project details like:
>
>  **<Project>**
>
>  Compatible: Yes|No
>
>  Version: x.y.z
>
>  Issues:
>
>   * [Upstream](https://example.com/issue/42)
>   * [Debian](https://bugs.debian.org/123456)
>   * [Fedora](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234567)
>   *
> [NetBSD](https://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=12345)
>
>  Notes: Uses projects.h

Sounds good to me.   Completely agreed that having a shared list beats
many of us doing it separately.   I guess that's separate from the
project taking it on as their mission, but wiki pages are cheap.

I'm happy to put my notes in there as I come across them.




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