[GRASS-dev] minor tweak to new website

Helena Mitasova hmitaso at ncsu.edu
Fri Jan 15 11:14:18 PST 2021


I agree with Michael’s suggestion too, Helena

> On Jan 15, 2021, at 2:10 PM, Paulo van Breugel <p.vanbreugel at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 5:49 PM Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu> wrote:
> On the new download pages, I just noticed that the dev versions are referenced like this:
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> GRASS GIS 7.9 devel (unstable)
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> This implies that GRASS 7.9 is risky and perhaps minimally useable. The reality is that it works very well but has some new features that might be buggy or might change. While we want to indicate these differences from the current stable version, we don’t want to discourage people from trying it (and reporting any issues).
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> I suggest that we reference it as
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> GRASS GIS 7.9 devel (development)
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> GRASS GIS 7.9 devel (preview)
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> +1 good point, it indeed works well, and is in my experience more stable than many other software tools I use(d).
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> Michael
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Helena Mitasova
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Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences
Associate director and faculty fellow at the Center for Geospatial Analytics
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