[GRASS5] Let's publish 5.0.3

[Markus Neteler]

(cc grass5)

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 08:16:15PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
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> Markus Neteler wrote:
> > Dear developers
> >
> > I feel that we should release quickly 5.0.3 and
> > prepare 5.3.0 as well.

That's fine (for me :-) Next week?

> > First we have to decide which changes should reach
> > the 5.0.3 version (a.k.a. current release branch).
> >
> > for that please make use of:
> > tools/diff.sh
> > and update missing changes in the release branch
> > (but only those which should go into 5.0.3:
> > HTML fixes and other minor fixes).
> >
> > The further procedure might be:
> > - release 5.0.3 soonish
> > - rename 5.1.0 to 5.7.0
> > - open a new 5.3.0 release branch (with NVIZ updates, proj updates etc)
> > - start 5.3.0 testing
> > etc.
> 
> Just to note that if it is useful having up-to-date releases in
> Mandrake, I have only about 2 weeks from now till version freeze
> (although it's not as stricly applied in contrib).
> 
> proj-4.4.7 just went into cooker contrib, and gdal-1.1.9 will go as soon
> as some of the python packages have been rebuilt for the update to
> python-2.3.

good to hear that. Also Debian moves slowly to get proj and gdal inside.

> BTW, why the large gap between 5.3 and 5.7? What about 5.5? What will
> the stable releases be? 5.4 and?

Please have a look at the roadmap. If unclear, we should improve the
document (yes, 5.4 will be the last stable version of the 5.x line):
http://grass.itc.it/roadmap.html

> Also, if there is going to be a "5.3" release of some kind, same applies
> to it as 5.0.3 for getting packages into contrib ...
> 
> Regards,
> Buchan

Markus