[GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.4.3 release planning

[Luca Delucchi]

On 23 July 2013 12:30, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

please Hamish start it.... you could use some pad

> 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?
>

markus we could also create a video like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=suyDqmGXoWk

>
> best,
> Hamish



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ciao
Luca

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