[GRASS-dev] grass6.3.0RC5 preparation

Hamish hamish_b at yahoo.com
Sat Feb 16 22:27:22 EST 2008


Martin Landa wrote:
> I also created initial version of release-news page for RC5
> http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.3.0RC5-News
> 
> I have a couple questions here, just to be sure
> 
> 1) I copied announcement text from the previous release-news page
> (RC4) and I made some minor improvements in text (note wxPython,
> etc.). Anyway this text is missing in rc3-rc1 release-news pages. I
> guess should be included in all release-new pages including RC's.

eh? what text was missing? about wx?

> 2) List of changes, the list reflects only changes made from the last
> release candidate (so rc2 reflects rc2-rc1, rc3:r3-r2, rc4:r4-r3).
> Shouldn't be the list accumulative? I mean rc2:rc2-rc1, rc3:rc3-rc1,
> rc4:rc4-rc1, rc5-rc5-rc1.

For RC announcements I'd just list major changes since the last RC in
bullet points. For the final release we should try and list major new
features since 6.2.
see  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.devel/24802/

For more detail tools/cvs2cl.pl (or svn equivalent) can produce the
changelog back to 6.3.0 branch creation, and before that date from the
point 6.2.0 branched away from HEAD. see:
  http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_6.2_Feature_Plan#TODO
In the past the release manager put the Changelog in the release
..tar.gz and the shorter inter-release changelog was posted to the
website after that.

> 3) There are milestones for rc1:rc3, but not for rc4.
> http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/milestone/6.3.0RC3
> I think milestone for 6.3.0 would be enough here, milestones for each
> RC are not necessary I think and maybe confusing when reporting the
> new ticket?

I agree, just one milestone for 6.3.0 is enough.


Remember the old milestone "tracker":
 http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_6.3_Feature_Plan#Must_do


Hamish


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