[GRASS-dev] Release policy: towards an urgent GRASS GIS release with Python3 support

[Moritz Lennert]

Am 27. Dezember 2018 10:38:39 MEZ schrieb Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org>:
>Dear all,
>
>we rather urgently need to publish trunk as the new stable version in
>order to get rid of the current Python2 issues.
>Python2 is close to EOL and being slowly dropped. Our interfaces to
>other software including QGIS require Python3. Also packaging becomes
>increasingly difficult on various operating systems as well as the
>usage of GRASS GIS in cloud environments (Openshift etc).
>
>I would suggest to only publish a single release of GRASS GIS 7.6 and
>to concentrate on the 7.8 release with Python3 support.
>
>Hence, I propose to start a new releasebranch_7_8 asap.
>
>The following maintenance scheme would result:
>
>- releasebranch_6_4: sleeping, rather EOL
>- releasebranch_7_2: EOL
>- releasebranch_7_4: LTS
>- releasebranch_7_6: interim stable release
>- releasebranch_7_8: LTS
>- trunk: G79, towards 8
>
>Again, we need to come to speed with Python3 support in terms of
>actually releasing it and the current trunk version looks works quite
>well.
>
>We may discuss to make 7.6 LTS and 7.4 EOL but many distros won't
>allow to update to 7.6 nor a 7.6 LTS will motivate us to avoid
>backporting and focus on 7.8 :-)
>
>Opinions?

+1
Moritz

>
>Markus
>
>
>PS:
>- EOL (End Of Life)
>- LTS (Long Term Support)
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