[GRASS5] Re: Code freeze

[Markus Neteler]

Hi David, hi all,
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 08:43:39PM +0000, David D Gray wrote:
> Markus Neteler wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > The branch freeze is our agreement. I think I cannot physically freeze
> > it to limit submissions to bugfixes. But the new tree shall be established
> > asap (after discussing it's final form, a draft is here:
> > documents/new_directory_structure.txt )
> > 
> > Hoping for getting out the stable release soon,
> > 
> >  Markus
> 
> Markus, everyone
> 
> It might be a good idea to have at least one pre-release ( GRASS 5.0
> PR1) out before the definitive final release, so that users can test the
> distribution.  
yes, I agree. In fact I was discussing such release candidate with
Bernhard (I should have posted that).

>Can I suggest a time-scale something like:
> 
> Mid-November: release candidate distributed.
> (all well) 1 Jan: GRASS 5.0 stable (GRASS ME  :)  )
> 
> Of course it depends on release-critical bugs, more might be revealed by
> a candidate release.
Do you think we need so much time? As many new changes are waiting,
I hope we can get out GRASS 5stable much earlier. Or am I wrong?
I thought we could start the new development tree in November...

Markus

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