[GRASS5] release announcement for grass 5.0.3

[Scott W Mitchell]

I'm trying to answer Markus' call for help on the picky details of 
finishing the release of 5.0.3.  I'm editing the 5.0.2 release 
announcement to create a version for 5.0.3, which is mostly trivial, 
except for the paragraph describing development branches - it was 
written before the new roadmap.

So.  What should it say ?

Right now it is (I've changed 5.2.x to 5.4.x, but then stopped to seek 
guidance):

"
<p>The general focus of the GRASS 5.0.x series is stability and 
reliability.
Major changes in the vector engine and attribute management system are 
under
development and will reach productional status with the next stable 
series,
planned as GRASS 5.4.x.<br>
A great deal of code for GRASS 5.4.x has been already implemented in the
experimental series numbered <a href=../grass51/index.html>5.1.x</a> 
since
December 2001.
"

It seems to me that "a great deal of code" is now in 5.3 in the nearer 
term for 5.4, whereas the 5.7 is yet another plane of progress and 
"wishes"... do we portray both of those in a release announcement, or 
... ?  In addition, it's probably a good time to give the extra 
details.  Maybe something like:

" The general focus of the GRASS 5.0.x series has been stability and 
reliability.  5.0.3 will be the last release in this line except for 
critical bugs.  Development on the release branch of GRASS is 
continuing as 5.3.x, for eventual production release as 5.4.x.<br>

Major changes in the vector engine and attribute management system are 
also under development in the experimental series <a 
href="http://grass.itc.it/grass51/index.html">5.7.x</a>, which will 
culminate as 6.x.

Details of this release plan can be viewed in the <a 
href="roadmap.html">Development Roadmap</a>."

I'm sorry, I didn't follow / remember every detail of the recent 
mailing list discussions of release numbering, so my wording may not 
reflect reality well.  I have simply tried to reflect the roadmap web 
document.

Thanks,
Scott

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Scott W. Mitchell		Scott_Mitchell at carleton.ca
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Carleton University, B349 Loeb Building
Ottawa, ON Canada
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