[GRASS-dev] [GRASS-PSC] too many branches => retirement GRASS6.5.svn (=develbranch6)

[Margherita Di Leo]

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 12:19 AM, Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at ncsu.edu> wrote:

> I believe that we have a communication problem here rather than a
> disagreement about the GRASS6.5:
>
> Hamish says:
> "GRASS 6.x is already far along into bugfix maintenance mode.
> *Please, just leave it to naturally and quietly make its way into history.*
>  I wish to use the bulk of my grass dev time maintaining the grass 6 line.
> To do that properly I need a staging area, and devbr6 is it. "
>
> which is pretty much in agreement with Martin's:
> "I think we should really stop thinking about GRASS 6 "development",
> So please bug fix only should go there (relbr64). No new functionality."
>
> So I think that we have a broad agreement on maintenance only mode for
> grass6 line,
> and if there is a concern that new features will be added to grass6.5,
> perhaps we can keep it
> in read-only mode as suggested in one of the initial emails in this
> discussion and have
> only Hamish keep write access for testing ("staging area").
>
> I think that if Hamish can maintain GRASS6 line this will free the time
> for all other developers to focus on GRASS7.
> Regarding GRASS7 - it is in a pretty good shape, we have been using it in
> classes since the fall semester
> and I was quite surprised how little changes are needed to update the full
> semester course material for GRASS7.
>

This makes sense to me.

Thanks,
Madi


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