[GRASS-dev] Re: GRASS 7 plans

[Markus Neteler]

(I take liberty to make this a new thread)

On Jan 30, 2008 7:12 AM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
> <2 cents>
> My hope is that we release 6.3.0 soon so we can focus on new business.
>
> ie soon after that is away cut a new releasebranch_6_4 and declare
> svn-trunk to be for GRASS 7 --- why wait?  AFAIK no one has plans for a
> 6.6 release, and if one day they do, that can be hewn from
> releasebranch_6_4.

I fully agree.
Since the OSGeo migration is almost done and SVN/trac are operative,
let's go ahead.

> I think it is a big mistake to try and do two development branches at
> the same time then try and merge changes between them.
>
> wxGUI is the anomaly, but luckily it is a somewhat independent beast. I
> would suggest continuing to work on it in releasebranch_6_4 until such
> time as we tag 6.4.0pre1 and move into bugfix-only mode. At that point
> we would port the GUI to GRASS 7 and move all new GUI development
> there.
> This presupposes that in the early days of GRASS 7 (the radical change
> period) we only need a disposable barebones GUI.

Right.

> Continuing development on native MS-Windows support for 6.4 is more
> entwined with the C code, but I hope we are past the bulk of those
> changes already and can limit the multi-branch merges to those (and
> bugs of course).

Also agreed.

> It is unclear to me where new documentation and translation efforts
> should be focused during that period. 6.4 branch until the GUI freezes?
> </2 cents>

I assume that it will happen in the 6.4 branch since trunk/HEAD will
undergo demolition and restructuring.

I have drafted a management page here:
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7Planning

Markus