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

[Helmut Kudrnovsky]

Markus Neteler wrote
> 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

regarding winGRASS with python 3, first steps for setup the OSGeo4W are
already done, see
https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/3719




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Helmut
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