[GRASS-dev] [release planning] GRASS GIS 8: create new release branch

[Moritz Lennert]

Le 16 août 2021 18:20:42 GMT+02:00, Veronica Andreo <veroandreo at gmail.com> a écrit :
>Hi all,
>
>El vie, 6 ago 2021 a las 4:29, Vaclav Petras (<wenzeslaus at gmail.com>)
>escribió:
>
>> Are we ready to create the 8.0 release branch?
>>
>
>Seems we are!!
>
>Once we create it, we will need to backport (cherry-pick) updates from the
>> master branch when needed.
>>
>> Please see the following for the individual issues we still have and post
>> here if you see some priorities.
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 5:24 PM Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Windows build & test is just bad (no bug or PR so far?),
>>>
>>>
>>> Can someone give an update on that, please?
>>>
>>
>>
>>> #1683 is not merged yet, but missing sh in the test environment is not a
>>> blocker in this case.
>>>
>>
>> https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/1683
>>
>> Tests are running!
>>
>>
>>>  CentOS is too
>>>
>>>> old (#1709) & needs auto tools update to fix it (or at least env
>>>> variable in build script as I just have done to enable testing in
>>>> #1501),
>>>
>>>
>>> ...or CentOS 8, CentOS Stream, or remove the CentOS test.
>>>
>>> https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/issues/1709#issuecomment-880215427
>>>
>>
>> It would be better if Autotools are updated, but CentOS build works now.
>> Are there any pressing issues?
>>
>>
>>> I would also strongly advocate merging ctypes upgrade before 8.0
>>>>
>>>
>>> Seems to be close to being finished too.
>>>
>>
>> ctypes update is closer everyday, but not finished yet. Maybe not needed
>> for 8.0?
>>
>> https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/1651
>>
>
>Milestone was changed to 8.2 and Nicklas suggest to move forward with
>release branch 8
>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 4:28 AM Maris Nartiss <maris.gis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 2021-07-27 18:26 GMT+03:00, Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com>:
>>> >
>>> > From what has the milestone 8.0 and is not mentioned below and is
>>> major, I
>>> > see only #1454 and #1501 which are related to band references. Maybe we
>>> > should again consider reverting the band references in order to get 8.0
>>> out
>>> > or how do you see the status of #1454 and #1501, Martin and Maris?
>>> >
>>> > https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/milestone/4
>>> > https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/1454
>>> > https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/1501
>>>
>>> For #1454 the main remaining (and unsolvable) issue is semantics of a
>>> mapset layout and its management functions. I just commited a more
>>> clean workaround and thus it should be ready for a merge. A proper
>>> solution will have to wait for GRASS 9 when we could reorganize mapset
>>> structure and thus also clean-up naming, handling functions etc.
>>>
>>
>> #1501 (Integrate band references into portable signature files) is close
>> to being merged.
>>
>
>this one was merged just after you posted this
>
>#1454 (TGIS DB v3 backward compatible with v2) has perhaps lower priority
>> since there is both upgrade and downgrade.
>>
>> As for issues linked to the milestone, please review what is there. See
>> what needs to stay there and what can be moved. For example, all issues
>> which are features and are not changing existing API can be moved to 8.2
>> milestone.
>>
>> https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/milestone/4
>>
>
> If no further objections I'd suggest to move forward with grass8 release
>branch creation

+1

Moritz