[PROJ] Future maintainance releases

[Kristian Evers]

> On 30 Oct 2019, at 20:39, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> wrote:
> 
>> That is certainly a possibility. But it is inevitable that the 6.x branch is
>> going to go out of date no matter what. 
> 
> Sure
> 
>> I don’t expect that we will be
>> able to keep the EPSG database up to date for very long in 6.x for
>> instance.
> 
> Once EPSG v10 is released, yes it won't be practical to update PROJ branches, 
> that haven't received the needed upgrades, with new EPSG databases (or that 
> would require to update the import script to do the necessary magic to deal 
> with the impedance mismatches)
> 
>> Right, in that case I think your proposal of introducing 6.3 in the next
>> release cycle is the best thing to do. I will update the release schedule
>> as follows: 
>> 6.3.0		January 1st 2020
>> 7.0.0 + 6.3.1	March 1st 2020
> 
> Sounds good to me.
> 
>> 
>> From 7.0 and onwards I think I would like to move to issuing releases every
>> three months as opposed to the bi-monthly cycle I’ve been keeping the last
>> two years. It’s less of a burden on me preparing the releases and I expect
>> the speed of development to slow down a bit now that the most significant
>> chunks of database work is finalised.
> 
> Ah ah, do you think so ? Reminds me of this famous quote "I'm doing a (free) 
> operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 
> 386(486) AT clones”
> 

Fair point :-) Honestly though, I think development has slowed down already.
And I don’t expect anyone to produce the crazy amounts of code that you did
for GDALbarn in the foreseeable future. But we’ll see, I don’t mind being wrong
about this.

/Kristian


> Even
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