[GRASS-dev] [release planning] GRASS GIS 7.8.0 with Python3 support

[Markus Neteler]

Hi devs,

quite a bit of time has passed, so:

On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 10:30 PM Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> time to speed up the GRASS GIS 7.8.0 release!
>
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 10:04 AM Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > ne 3. 3. 2019 v 19:33 odesílatel Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com> napsal:
> > > my +1 for creating 7.8 releasebranch. It's a first step which can be
> > > done ASAP. Ma
>
> I believe that it is now overdue to create a new "releasebranch_7_8"
> in Github and start to prepare the 7.8.0 release.
>
> The roadmap is to be defined:
> https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/milestone/7.8.0
>
> but we need the 7.8.0 release _before_ the FOSS4G conference.
> OSGeoLive I don't know as they have the OSGeoLive Feature Freeze on
> 25-June-2019.

... this train is already gone.

> Anything against the idea of creating the new "releasebranch_7_8" in Github?

as there were no objections, I have created the new

https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/tree/releasebranch_7_8

GRASS GIS 7.8.0RC1 to be prepared asap.

Markus