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

[Markus Neteler]

Hi devs,

currently sitting next to Martin, we updated our roadmap (also keeping
the QGIS releases in mind [1] and the next OSGeoLive release):

Time schedule:
https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/milestone/7.8.0

- Proposal of release: 4 Feb 2019 (OSGeo birthday, btw!)
- Creation of release branch: 11 Feb 2019
- RC1: 11 Mar 2019
- RC2: 24 Mar 2019
- RC3: if needed
- Final release: 1 Apr 2019 (tentatively)

For sure an "intensive" plan but we need to move forward. Time to
retire Python-2!
... and if bugs discovered, we can quickly release 7.8.1 etc.

[1] https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/development/roadmap.html#release-schedule

Cheers
Markus and Martin