[GRASS-dev] [release planning] GRASS GIS 7.8.3

[Markus Neteler]

Hi Martin, all,

On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 7:02 AM Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> ne 19. 4. 2020 v 11:07 odesílatel Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com> napsal:
> > https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/4018
>
> can we close this ticket?

Yes, now closed.

> > This is not definitely a blocker:
> >
> > https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/3622
>
> > > - https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/485
> > > - https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/405
>
> Both merged.
>
> We have unfortunately delay with 7.8.3 [1]. I don't see any blocker to
> start with RC1 ASAP.

If no objections, I'll prepare RC1 tomorrow.

> If no blocker issues appears in two weeks [2] I
> would suggest to skip RC2 and release 7.8.3 directly after RC1.

Yes, let's try!

> Martin
>
> PS: I used GRASS for teaching/training three times this year (Feb,
> Mar, Apr). In all cases I was forced to use GRASS 7.9dev since 7.8.2
> contains critical bugs for me (eg. Open button in Python editor
> doesn't work). I hope to see releases more often if possible.
>
> [1] https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/milestone/1
> [2] https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/RFC/4_ReleaseProcedure#GeneralProcedure

Indeed we have accumulated a lot of bugfixes, time to publish them.

Markus