Third GDAL Meeting

Date: Friday, October 24, 2008

Time: 1400 GMT or 10:00am US Eastern (​world clock)

Place: #gdal on irc.freenode.net

Agenda

• Approve minutes for SecondMeeting
• Establish beta/rc/final release timing.
• Bug Skim (what to defer): 1.6 milestone bug list
• Release TODO review.
• Release Test Matrix (platforms, languages, drivers)
• Review 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 TODO160.
• Andrey Kiselev will draft a 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.