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

[Moritz Lennert]

On 07/04/14 00:19, Helena Mitasova 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.

This is what I tried to say in my mail, but much less elegantly. Thanks 
Helena !

Moritz