[GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.4.3 release planning

[Hamish]

Markus Neteler wrote:
>> Today could be a great rlease-6.4.3-day :)

since on the 24th we are +2 weeks since RC4 without any major bugs being
reported I think we are ok to release any time now. I don't know about
anyone else but I can't say I've really tested rc4 very much beyond
making sure the debian package building still works. too busy :-/


Luca:
> we are so close to 30 July that we could wait a week and release
> in the same day of his born :-)

It would be a nice little something for the release announcement too. :)
Speaking of which, do we want to write the formal release announcement +
2 paragraph abstract as we have for earlier releases in grass-web svn, or
do something different now? I think we need something higher-level than
the trac wiki's detailed changelog highlights, and that it should be
done before release. I might try a first draft tomorrow if no one
else has started on it.

Also MarkusN's "visual changelog" idea is nice, the trac news items for
the earlier RCs should give some ideas. anyone like to start on 

screenshots for that? maybe host/compose in the more thumbnail-
friendly/prettier grass mediawiki?


fyi the only bug I'm actively thinking on in 6.x is m.proj (and so
r.in.wms) on WinGrass when the location uses a grid transform file. It
fails due to a cs2cs quoting problem + spaces in $GISBASE/etc/ path to
the NTv2 grid file. I've got it close to working in 6.5svn (but not
quite) and can prototype it working on the command line in wingrass 6.4,
but still it gives bad results from the script. Things are quite busy for
me right now so unless someone else wants to help I think that can wait
for the next train. It's listed in the rc4 errata and I think the next
step is working on some known-good transforms of modern and pre-satellite
era datum transforms into a new m.proj test_suite/ script.


best,
Hamish