[GRASS5] A request for control

[Lisa Zygo]

Hi Bernhard,

I am very much in favor of Markus' schedule.  I also appreciate all the hard work you
all have been doing.

I always try to pay attention to the developers' list.  For the most part, the
suggestions from users have been in line with what the developers are planning or are
working on.  Many of their questions deal with running GRASS and capabilities that are
present in GRASS (but they just have not read the manuals to know they exist).  Another
big topic is importing data from other sources.  Usually these exist or the developers
have been debugging them to work in GRASS 5.  I have also directed some people to join
the GRASS mailing list because of their ideas.  In the future, I can post some of these
ideas myself, but I thought it would come better from the actual users.

Overall, GRASS users are pleased to see that GRASS is still available and progressing.
Occassionally, we will receive an e-mail simply saying thanks for the hard work.  I have
passed some of these along to Markus.

Thanks,
Lisa

Bernhard Reiter wrote:

> Lisa,
>
> your efforts in supporting GRASS users are greatly appreciated!
>
> It is no shame and no secret that Baylor has not contributed much
> source code lately. We know that supporting users is at least
> as important as writing source code.
>
> I hope to get more input from you about what could be made better
> for the users. Unfortunalty I do not see much of the email you
> get about grass. It there a way we could organise this email to
> be more accessible or get the summary of the feedback to us (developers)?
> There might be some problems which can be addressed from the
> development side for the next versions.
>
> From what I have understand now, we have to put even more pressure
> on releasing a stable GRASS5 soon. Is Markus revised schedule going in the
> right direction?
>
> I feel that together we can organise User support and development
> even better and be proud of the join effort.
>
> Kind Regards,
>         Bernhard
>
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 11:26:29AM -0500, Lisa Zygo wrote:
> > Markus Neteler wrote:
>
> > > Well, to be clear here: Bruce Byars did not participate in GRASS 5
> > > development from Oct 1999 onwards (GPL release). We did not receive and
> > > source code from Baylor since that time (except some HTML pages).
>
> > > I do not want to start a flame war here, just clarify some points.
> > > Maybe the board of people to decide things should be more than one
> > > person.
>
> > I fully support that you have been and continue to head up the GRASS 5
> > development.  However, I just wanted to clarify that a lot of the work being done
> > at Baylor is in the user support area.  We answer tons of e-mails from the user
> > community about how to set up and use GRASS when they come across problems and how
> > to accomplish the various tasks they wish to do.  GRASS is definitely a worthy
> > team project, and the user community is anxiously anticipating a stable release of
> > GRASS 5.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Lisa
> >
> >
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