[GRASS-dev] are we ready for a 6.2.1 release?

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 08:24:14PM +1300, Hamish wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Now that the gis.m startup error message problem is (fingers crossed)
> dealt with, are there any other outstanding issues holding back a 6.2.1
> release? These should be critical bug fixes only.
> 
> Due to badly broken ps.map in 6.2.0 and the common hard to understand
> gis.m startup error message, I'd hope for a release soon. It is now 30
> days since 6.2.0 was released (and that's a nice round number).
> 
> see
>  http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_6.2_Feature_Plan#6.2.1
> 
> * For NVIZ bug #4725 I have added a warning message with suggested
> work-around so don't consider that release critical (it may take some
> time to fix this one).
> 
> * I don't know anything about the r.distance NULL bugfix, do can't
> comment on that.
> 
> 
> Markus: can you trigger an new 6.2-releasebranch snapshot for testing?

Yes, I was thinking the same recently.
I will prepare a testing candidate.

> 
> ps - any cvs2cl.pl hints?
> Do you need to do a full checkout of the 6.2 branch to run it?

Yes, I guess so.

> Are the following requests->commands correct?
> 
> doc/howto_release.txt:
>      #create ChangeLog on release branch:
>      sh tools/cvs2cl.pl --follow "$CVSBRANCH"

This worked so far.

> 
> 6.2.newbranch->6.2.latest
>     -F *BRANCH*, --follow *BRANCH*
>         Show only revisions on or ancestral to *BRANCH*.
> or
> 
> 6.2.a -> 6.2.b
>     --delta *FROM_TAG*:*TO_TAG*
>         Attempt a delta between two tags (since *FROM_TAG* up to and
>         including *TO_TAG*). The algorithm is a simple date-based one
>         (this is a hard problem) so results are imperfect.

For the latter two I don't know, someone may suggest.
Would be nice to publish the delta, too.

Markus