[GRASS5] Next steps for GRASS

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 03:05:08PM +0000, Michel Wurtz wrote:
> Markus Neteler wrote:
> >
> > Then: An outcome of the developers meeting in Trento last November
> > was that a merge back of the release_branch into the experimental
> > tree is required for synchronization. However, from there we will
> > create a new release_branch again which only contains the modules
> > intented for release as stable version.
> 
> I'm a little confused by release branch and main trunk of Grass5.0.
> I made all the changes (bug fixes and some code enhancement) on the
> branch "releasebranch_11_april_2001_5_0_0".

A lot of people did, you are not alone... :)
Another stragety was not explained enough.

> Does this mean that I should do that on "MAIN" and must only fix
> bugs on release_branch ?

That is the idea.
As it obviously did not happen as envisioned,
we have to do the merge first, 
before we can branch again.

If you think about a code change, which is

	Completly experimental and not of immediate relevance:
		Consider adding it to grass51

	If a critical bug: consider release branch
			   Ask Markus.

	Default: MAIN


Bernhard


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