[GRASS5] Release Management (10 days to go before Freeze)

[Andrea Aime]

Hi Bernhard, hi all,
as you may know some months ago I performed some maintainance
on s.voronoi a s.delaunay... they were just small bug fixes and
feature enhancementes, but the central "Fortune alghorithm" was
not modified. The problem is that this alghoritm doesn't take into
account some border cases, that may  appear only with very particular
geometric configurations (four or more cocircular points and the like):
the result is a voronoi diagram or a triangulation that's completely
screwed up... unfortunately I haven't managed to understard Fortune's
source code, so I set up to write a new implementation, but then
I got stuck due to my imminent wedding. So, I think that we should
either remove these modules or inform the user that they may
fail. I'd prefer the latter, since these bug are hard to reproduce
with real data and these modules can't be easily substituted,
but I leave the decision up to you...
Best regards
Andrea Aime

Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> 
> Attention: Here speaks the self elected release assisstant!
> 
> To all developers. This is a roadmap reminder.
> 
>         The code freeze for grass 5.0.0 release is coming up.
>         =====================================================
> 
> We plan to create the release branch early in the calender week 17
> (starting with monday the 22th of april).
> Then we will release grass5.0.0pre4 shortly after leading to grass5.0.0.
> Only release critical bugs can be fixed on this cvs branch then.
> All other have to wait for grass5.0.1.
> 
>         This leaves you ten more days to make sure the code you care about
>         =================================================================
>         is in shape for release.
>         ========================
> 
> If you wonder what you can do, please help to fix bugs or
> classify bugs from the bugtracker.
> We have 25 open bugs right now.
> 
> We will release GRASS 5.0.0 this way. You've been warned!
> 
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