[GRASS-dev] grass6.3.0RC5 preparation

Martin Landa landa.martin at gmail.com
Sun Feb 17 05:43:42 EST 2008


Hi,

2008/2/17, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com>:
> Martin Landa wrote:
> > I also created initial version of release-news page for RC5
> > http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.3.0RC5-News
> >
> > I have a couple questions here, just to be sure
> >
> > 1) I copied announcement text from the previous release-news page
> > (RC4) and I made some minor improvements in text (note wxPython,
> > etc.). Anyway this text is missing in rc3-rc1 release-news pages. I
> > guess should be included in all release-new pages including RC's.
Hamish:
> eh? what text was missing? about wx?

compare

http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.3.0RC4-News

and

http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.3.0RC3-News

> > 2) List of changes, the list reflects only changes made from the last
> > release candidate (so rc2 reflects rc2-rc1, rc3:r3-r2, rc4:r4-r3).
> > Shouldn't be the list accumulative? I mean rc2:rc2-rc1, rc3:rc3-rc1,
> > rc4:rc4-rc1, rc5-rc5-rc1.
>
> For RC announcements I'd just list major changes since the last RC in
> bullet points. For the final release we should try and list major new
> features since 6.2.
> see  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.devel/24802/
>
> For more detail tools/cvs2cl.pl (or svn equivalent) can produce the
> changelog back to 6.3.0 branch creation, and before that date from the
> point 6.2.0 branched away from HEAD. see:
>   http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_6.2_Feature_Plan#TODO
> In the past the release manager put the Changelog in the release
> ..tar.gz and the shorter inter-release changelog was posted to the
> website after that.

> > 3) There are milestones for rc1:rc3, but not for rc4.
> > http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/milestone/6.3.0RC3
> > I think milestone for 6.3.0 would be enough here, milestones for each
> > RC are not necessary I think and maybe confusing when reporting the
> > new ticket?
>
> I agree, just one milestone for 6.3.0 is enough.

OK, I will modify rc3-rc1 to reflect 6.3.0 as the milestone.

> Remember the old milestone "tracker":
>  http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_6.3_Feature_Plan#Must_do

Martin

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