[GRASS-dev] [release planning] GRASS GIS 7.0.6

[Markus Neteler]

On Jun 25, 2017 10:12 PM, "Markus Metz" <markus.metz.giswork at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 9:15 PM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > given the important ctypes/GCC 7 fix in trac #3331
>
> has this been properly tested on all supported platforms?

So far on Mac, Windows, Fedora, and OpenSUSE.

> > I suggest to also
> > release GRASS GIS 7.0.6 (currently unplanned).
>
> are there any features in 7.0 that are not present or not working in 7.2?
>
> If not, I would rather encourage users to upgrade to 7.2.y instead of
providing a new 7.0.y release.

The problem is that GRASS will be kicked out of Fedora since it does not
compile on F26. Likewise in similar modern distros where no update to 7.2
happens for whatever reason.

> Some bug fixes might have been backported from trunk to relbr72, but not
to relbr70. These would need to be backported to relbr70 as well.

Not sure..  We may keep it to a minimum to avoid above mentioned mess. it
took so long to get accepted...

Best.
markusN

> my2c
>
> Markus M
>
> >
> > The related milestone is this one:
> > https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/milestone/7.0.6
> >
> > Given the fact that in general we rather concentrate on 7.2.x releases
> > (or even higher version numbers), I'd keep this 7.0.6 maintenance
> > release as simple as possible.
> >
> > If there aren't any objections, I'll start to prepare things :)
> >
> > Markus
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