[GRASS-dev] [release] GRASS 7.2.1 planning

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 11:07 AM, Moritz Lennert
<mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
> On 20/02/17 10:03, Martin Landa wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> since GRASS 7.0.0 has been released almost two mounts ago (28/12) we
>> should plan 7.2.1 release. Our goal is to release at least twice or in
>> better case three times per year. Currently 7.2.1 release is planned
>> in April [1]. It would mean regarding RFC4 [2]:
>>
>> 3/3 - soft freeze (only bugfixes)
>> 3/4 - hard freeze + RC1
>> 17/4 - RC2
>> 24/4 - final
>>
>> Any comments?
>
>
> +1

Yes (or we even speed up, perhaps no need to wait for so long).

>> It would be nice also to solve waiting backports [3] till 3/3.
>
> Most of these are not bugfixes, but enhancements. I don't think they should
> go into a point release. I'd rather we only fix bugs in point releases and
> get out 7.4 rather quickly if we feel there are enough enhancements.

At time there are > 200 open tickets:
https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&group=status&milestone=7.4.0

but that's for a separate thread.

Markus

> Moritz
>
>>
>> Ma
>>
>> [1] https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/milestone/7.2.1
>> [2] https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/RFC/4_ReleaseProcedure
>> [3] https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7Planning#a7.2.1tobebackported
>>