[GRASS5] Re: [Pkg-grass-general] Re: Bug#264566: Any progress on grass 5.7?

[Hamish]

[re the debian package]
> > For now I think 5.7.0 is a good starting point, although it is
> > almost four months old now. In future, definitely pull from a cvs
> > snapshot if there hasn't been a new point version, the question is
> > how often? twice a year? four times a year? I guess it depends on
> > how much work it takes the maintainers to get one out.
> 
> Hamish,
> 
> I feel more comfortable working from the stable releases (and 5.7 is
> already not considered the stable branch). I would hesitate to pull
> anything from CVS but security patches.


Right. In that case we just push for 5.7.x point releases on a quarterly
basis? maybe every 6 months is a better effort:result ratio?

Development on 5.7 will not slow down for a long time... going way out
on a limb, I'd rank it about the same maturity as Linux 2.6..



Hamish