[GRASS-dev] Planning of GRASS GIS 6.4.6 release

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 4:46 PM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
> Hi devs,
>
> since GRASS GIS is a truly long term project (remember its 33rd
> "birthday" on July 29th!) we need to get out version 6.4.6. See also the
> https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/roadmap
>
> A few relevant fixes got accumulated in the 6.4 release branch, so
> time to publish a new minor release.
>
> Following our proposed
>   http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/RFC/4_ReleaseProcedure
> the release procedure would be:
>
> Step 1 - Proposal of release: Done.
>
> Step 2 (day X) - Soft freeze of release branch: suggestion 6 July 2016 :-)

Well, now we are 16th of July.

> Step 3 (X+30 days) - Hard freeze & RC1:
>   [important at least for the winGRASS package]
>
> ... etc according to RFC4.
>
> Coordination is done here:
> http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass6Planning
>
> To collect the changes I have started a News page at:
> https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.4.6-News

For the record: I have just made three important backports in
r.terraflow and libiostream:

r68988 + r68989 + r68990

which fix compilation issues with GCC 6.
Please test.

> Suggestion: if nobody has complex submissions to be done, we may even
> shorten step 2 to less than 30 days.

I'm still of that opinion.

Best,
Markus

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