Thanks for your great work as release manager, Erik! Tim
Erik Uzureau wrote: > The OpenLayers Development Team is proud to announce the first release > candidate of OpenLayers 2.7!! > > As of 2.7-RC1, the OpenLayers 2.7 release closes 182 outstanding > tickets, split nearly down the middle between bug fixes and new > features. Although this ticket count is less than previous releases, > the 2.7 release is the first release which has been executed as a > date-based release (instead of feature-based)... which represents a > bit of a departure for the project. Whether or not we will continue to > make releases based on this fixed date style is up in the air, but the > experiment has proved interesting and mostly successful. > > The 2.7 release should not present the drastic changes that we've seen > in previous releases (like 2.6). Overall, it turns out to be much more > of a bug fix release, although it does include some exciting new > functionality. Highlights include: > > * Vector-Behavior: Strategies, Protocols, Filters (though the > completion of this going in at RC2) > * Improved Vector rendering for better performance > * Canvas rendering class > * Z-Ordering and Y-Ordering for Vector layers > * New Basic Measurement Control > * New OpenLayers.Request interface for AJAX > * Smarter Popups > > ... and tons of other new features and bug fixes that you can see > detailed here: http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Release/2.7/Notes > > For information on possible changes that will need to be made between > this version of OpenLayers and previous versions, please look at the > Release notes, available at the Release Notes information[1]. > > We invite you to help us test the 2.7 release candidate! To test 2.7 > in your applications, include the following tag in your > OpenLayers-powered page: > > <script src="http://openlayers.org/api/2.7-rc1/OpenLayers.js";></script> > > As always, the source is available at http://openlayers.org/download/. > Bug reports can be filed in Trac, under the 2.7 version and 2.7 RC1 > milestone. > > There are so many people who have really made this release happen, too > many to name here. OpenLayers is not about the fame, it's about the > glory. You know who you are. Thank You. > > A special thanks, though, goes out to John Frank/Josiah Strandberg at > MetaCarta and Chris Holmes from TOPP for putting up the funds and > clearing away the time so that we could have an excellent 'bunker > week' out in Cambridge at the end of July. That bunker was a critical > pow-wow for us in terms of getting things under control for the 2.7 > release and also in general for project synergy and getting some great > patches in. Thank you! > > Finally, a small plug for the FOSS4G conference in Cape Town at the > end of the month. Several of us from the ore development team will be > there, listening to and making presentations about OpenLayers and > other projects... and hopefully bragging about this release! If you > are planning to be there, please come out of the woodwork and say > hello! > > Furthermore, we plan on having a little mini coding bunker on > Saturday, October 4th, if people are around and interested. If you'd > like to participate, sign up here: > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2008_CodeSprint#OpenLayers > > All forthcoming RC announcements will be sent only to the Developers > list: anyone interested in tracking the progress to a final release > should subscribe[2] to that list. > > We look forward to your feedback on this release. > > [1] > http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Release/2.7/Notes#Changestoexistingapplicationsfrompreviousversions > [2] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
