[GRASS5] Fertilizer 2002: CVS and release strategies

[Bernhard Reiter]

It's so quiet here...
Everybody still chewing on the text?

I think it is important that te majority of developers
at least comments briefly.



On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:29:05PM +0100, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> 	GRASS-Development Meeting 24.11.2001 Trento 2001
> 	================================================
> 
> In the late evening Markus, Bernhard and Radim
> managed to have a small meeting about GRASS development strategy.
> 
> This texts summarises Bernhard's ideas about how
> to handle the CVS and releases. Radim contributed the 
> first proposal of what to call a release critical bug
> and which CVS tree and branch to choose to work on.
> 
> 
> The symptoms: 
> 	We do not release tar balls frequently enough.
> 	The long needed 5.0 stable release has not happened yet.
> 
> Conclusion: 
> 	The stable release will come when it is ready.
> 	If critical bugs continue to be found 
> 	a tarball cannot be called stable.
> 
> 	GRASS development has to be more strict about 
> 	the process of handling CVS branches, reparing tarballs
> 	and fixing bugs. The group of developers is growing.
> 	Only if we repeat certain steps with more discipline
> 	and build more structure the trust in the process will grow.
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