[GRASS-dev] Critical bugs for 6.4.4 release: last chance to react, otherwise we'll release with these bugs

[Anna Petrášová]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 5:03 AM, Moritz Lennert <
mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:

> Sorry for the somewhat aggressive subject line, but it's meant as a
> heads-up and last call for action.
>
> We want to release 6.4.4 and if no one has immediate solutions for these
> bugs, I suggest to just declare them as known bugs and release.
>
> *************Executive summary**********
>
> Of the remaining bugs marked as critical I see two where we might still
> need a backport to 6.4.4:
>
> - https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/560 (WinGRASS not deleting temp ppm
> files from map display)
>

I just committed a fix for it to 6.5, should I go ahead and backport it now?

- https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/2300 (v.out.ogr: spatialite support
> not working)
>
> For the rest, I think we can release with these bugs as know bugs.
>
> ******************************************
>
> More in detail;
>
> Looking at
>
> https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/query?status=assigned&status=
> new&status=reopened&group=priority&order=priority&col=
> id&col=summary&col=owner&col=type&col=priority&col=component&col=version&
> milestone=6.4.4
>
> I see 6 critical bugs:
>
> - https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/72 (PNG driver: boundary rendering
> is off by one pixel): This has been around for a long time. I'm not sure I
> would classify this as critical, as it is mostly about display, not
> analysis (AFAIU). I would vote for carrying this bug on to the next release.
>
> - https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/335 (export floats and doubles with
> correct precision): I'm not sure I understand what needs to be done on
> this, but have the feeling that we can release with this bug.
>
> - https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/560 (WinGRASS not deleting temp ppm
> files from map display): should r56444 be backported before release ?
>
> - https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/2008 (grass.script's find_program()
> can't find modules): I don't know how much testing r56867 (and subsequent
> modifications) has received, but no one has complained since. AFAIU, the
> original problem of the ticket is solved, but there are different
> discussions happening there, so I'm a bit lost.
>
> - https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/2087 (grass64 man page: missing
> words): I've closed this as there have been no objections to the fix.
>
> - https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/2300 (v.out.ogr: spatialite support
> not working): Hamish proposes a patch which he tested against grass6devel.
> This sound sufficiently critical to me to warrant a backport.
>
> Looking through the bugs classified as major, most are nuisances, but not
> really critical. Possible exceptions:
>
> - https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/2016 (v.surf.idw: very incorrect
> results)
> - https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1500 (g.region returns wrong
> convergence angle), but this seems to concern only specific environments
> - https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/2081 (r.sun (mode 2): sawtooth bug
> in diffuse irradiation map)
>
>
> Moritz
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