[GRASS-dev] too many branches

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Markus Metz wrote:
>> IMHO, it would make maintenance much easier if one of 6.4 and
>> 6.5 would go rather sooner than later.
>
> I absolutely and quite strongly disagree. It is invaluable to have
> a staging area to test backports

Here I have severe doubts that this happens. Can you demonstrate
that things are significantly tested? I don't see this.

Here your promised backports, all TODO:
https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/192
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1690
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/91
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1513
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1315
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1312
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1142
https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/335

If these backports never happen (I cannot take care of all of them)
then 6.5 is superfluous.

Furthermore:
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/173
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/175
https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/778

MarkusN