[GRASS-dev] minor tweak to new website

Zoltan zoltans at geograph.co.za
Fri Jan 15 13:04:00 PST 2021


Hi,
If I may:

Devel (development)  has wording redundancy.
What about....7.9 snapshot (under development)

Regards from a lurker that admires the effort you guys put in.
Zoltan 

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On 15 Jan 2021, 21:21, at 21:21, Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at ncsu.edu> wrote:
>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:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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:
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> GRASS GIS 7.9 devel (unstable)
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> 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).
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> I suggest that we reference it as
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> GRASS GIS 7.9 devel (development)
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Or
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> GRASS GIS 7.9 devel (preview)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> +1 good point, it indeed works well, and is in my experience more
>stable than many other software tools I use(d).
>> 
>>  
>>  
>> 
>> Michael
>> 
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>Sciences
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>> Arizona State University
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>> 
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>Helena Mitasova
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