= Third GDAL Meeting = Date: Friday, October 24, 2008 Time: 1400 GMT or 10:00am US Eastern ([http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=10&day=24&year=2008&hour=14&min=0&sec=0 world clock]) Place: #gdal on irc.freenode.net == Agenda == * Approve minutes for SecondMeeting * Establish beta/rc/final release timing. * Bug Skim (what to defer): [http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&milestone=1.6.0 1.6 milestone bug list] * [wiki:TODO160 Release TODO] review. * Release [wiki:TestMatrix160 Test Matrix] (platforms, languages, drivers) * Review [wiki:ReleaseManagementPrelim proposed release management] document == Minutes == Attendance: Howard Butler, Ari Jolma, Tamas Szekerest, Klokan Petr Přidal, Andrey Kiselev, Frank Warmerdam * Minutes of SecondMeeting approved. * The following release schedule was established: * October 29th: Beta 1 * November 12th: Beta 2 * November 26th: RC 1 * Additional RCs as needed (hopefully only a few days apart) till final release approved * Several small outstanding work items planned before Beta1. * Bug list reviewed quickly: * All developers encouraged to review bugs, retarget milestones, and raise priority of important bugs to "high" or even "highest" if they are absolutely release critical. * FrankW will attempt a more comprehensive review of outstanding tickets. * All developers are encouraged to seize and fix tickets of interest! * It is not anticipated that the bulk of the bugs will be fixed for the release (460 open tickets, 100 against the 1.5/1.6.0 milestones). Instead we must identify high priority issues, and otherwise just fix those that people have time/inclination for. * Folks are encouraged to add release related to do items and issues in [wiki:TODO160]. * Andrey Kiselev will draft a [wiki:TestMatrix160 1.6.0 Test Matrix] for everyone to start contributing too after Beta1 is released. * Today (Oct 24th) was declared RFC freeze day. * Frank Warmerdam was declared 1.6.0 release manager. * Meeting adjourned.