5.0.3 release candidate 1 - was: Re: [GRASS5] Roadmap: Numbering

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 04:40:21PM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:12:23PM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 11:05:13AM +0100, Paul Kelly wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Markus Neteler wrote:
> > > 
> > > > [...]
> > > >
> > > > Are there implications to release 5.3.0 before 5.0.3?
> > > 
> > > Only that people might use it :) I think the CVS HEAD is in good working
> > > order at the minute. The old experimental releases 5.0.0preX had some
> > > quite serious bugs in them and at that time there was no alternative
> > > stable release available; I think the time is right to release 5.3.0.
> > 
> > To somewhat confirm:
> > I have looks at the diffs between the 5.0.x release branch and the
> > CVS HEAD. It seems to be a lot of (useless?) work required to
> > patch in the important bugfixes into the release branch for a 5.0.3
> > version.
> > Probably we better work on 5.4.0 then and 5.7.
> 
> 5.0.3 is important for stability reasons.
> In other projects I know how important that is in principle.

Good news: You may have seen my activities to prepare 5.0.3 :-)

Now testers are needed to try release candidate 1:
http://mpa.itc.it/markus/grass50/

->  grass-5.0.3rc1_src.tar.gz 24M
 
> It will be quite some time before 5.4.0
> and we need an official most stable version until we get this.

Sure - under construction.
It basically depends on people to test above 5.0.3 release candidate.

Markus