[GRASS-dev] [release] GRASS 7.2.1 planning

[Markus Metz]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 8:57 PM, Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> 2017-02-26 20:33 GMT+01:00 Helmut Kudrnovsky <hellik at web.de>:
> > spring 2017 - 7.4.0
> > autumn 2017 - 7.4.1
>
> 7.4.0 in spring 2017??? You probably meant spring 2018?
>
> Last release is 7.2.0 (Dec 2016), we even haven't released 7.2.1. It's
> always harder to release 7.x.0 than point releases, like 7.2.x. So
> less releases do not really help.

+1
IMHO more releases do help, e.g more frequent 7.2.x releases with bug fixes.
>
> Preparing 7.4.0 will take longer time, we need to prepare major
> release news, create release branch and so on. A lot of work. Moreover
> release branch should be created in advance, I guess ~ 5 months before
> release.

There must be a good reason to release a new GRASS 7 branch, e.g. some new
exciting features or bug fixes that because of their complexity could not
be backported.

my2c

Markus M

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