PSC Meeting 2021 08 26
- 2021-08-26 @ 13:00 UTC
- 1 hour in length
- IRC channel: #mapserver on irc.libera.chat (connect in browser or see other connection methods)
- 8.0.0 release plan discussions
- review major items outlined on release plan
- do we modify proposed release schedule?
- community feedback / discussions
- SECURITY.md terms
- ossfuzz
- next meeting date
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Attending: Steve, Jeff, Seth, Even, Daniel
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Agenda item: discuss the 8.0 release plan and timeline (plan: https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/wiki/MapServer-8.0-Release-Plan)
- timing:
- steve: would like to move feature freeze a week or 2
- even: only one beta is needed
- steve: maybe FF on 9/17, 8.0 final on 10/8
- jeff: ok, proposal:
- Feature freeze: Fri. September 17, 2021
- 8.0-beta: Fri. September 24, 2021
- 8.0-rc1: Fri. October 1, 2021
- 8.0 (final): Fri. October 8, 2021
- Config file RFC
- steve: missing forcing plugins to reference the config file
- seth: do all users have to use config file, with 8.0 ?
- steve: yes
- even: will config file be searched in /etc/ on Unix?
- steve: no default location at moment
- jeff: what about wildcards, searching for multiple mapfiles through the config file?
- steve: MS_MAP_PATTERN must be set in config file
- daniel: MS_MAP_PATTERN can be a regex
- steve: will update wiki RFC, jeff to publish
- even: use the make install target of cmake, to find config in /etc
- steve: thanks Even for msautotest passing with the config changes
- OGCAPI
- steve and jeff to meet to cleanup final parts
- timing:
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Agenda item: SECURITY.md feedback
- even: only support current stable release, and the previous branch
- daniel: patch the last release branch of the two most recent major releases
- jeff: that is what was my initial suggestion in thread, current stable release plus previous branch (so after the 8.0 release this will mean we support 8.0.x and 7.6.x)
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Other items:
- seth: working on MapServer slide for the FOSS4G presentation
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Next meeting: September 30th
