[GRASS-dev] [release planning] GRASS GIS 7.4.4 - as a "friendship release" for QGIS

[Markus Neteler]

Hi devs,

there is the request by the QGIS team to ensure that GRASS 7.4.4 comes
out before 2019-01-18 (release date of QGIS 2.18.28) in order to offer
in Processing the much requested "r.mapcalc.simple", see
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/8444 .

Since it is not too much effort from our side (besides the lately
probably high frequency release cycle for 7.4.x) I would suggest to
get GRASS GIS 7.4.4 out as a "friendship release" for QGIS :-)

The proposed time schedule (https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/milestone/7.4.4):
- Proposal of release: 28 Dec 2018
- Soft freeze of release branch: 30 Dec 2018
- RC1: 2 Jan 2019
- Final release: 15 Jan 2019

Besides r.mapcalc.simple we have three fixes to offer, see

https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/7.4.4-News

Any objections?

Markus