[GRASS5] 5.4 release branch

[Paul Kelly]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Markus Neteler wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 09:14:29PM +0100, Paul Kelly wrote:
>> I think the way forward now is to create a new branch in CVS and prepare
>> 5.4.0 from it. I'm starting to think now maybe 5.3.1 would be a waste of
>> effort. I will create a new branch in a few days if there aren't many
>> objections.
>
> Great!

OK, here is the plan:
On Monday or Tuesday I plan to create a new CVS branch with the latest 
revisions of all files in the HEAD as the branch point. The branch will be 
called 'releasebranch_5_4'.
There is a script tools/cvsbranch.sh but I decided not to use this, as I 
feel it is more convenient and transparent if the whole source tree is 
included in the release branch and source distributions. I also feel it is 
inappropriate to include a date in the branch tag as the date it was created
is not significant, and it will be used for all 5.4.x releases.

After the branch has been created, any new features added to the CVS HEAD 
will not be in the 5.4 releases and will probably never be released, as 
development and releases will now all be done in the grass51 CVS module. 
Only bugfixes should be committed to the release branch and if in doubt 
about if something should be added, it should be discussed on the mailing 
list.

After creating the release branch I will update the configure script there 
so it uses the alternate build mechanism by default. Then we can prepare 
the 5.4.0 release candidate for testing by the middle of this week.

Does this sound like a reasonable plan?

Paul