[GRASS-PSC] too many branches => retirement GRASS6.5.svn (=develbranch6)

[Sören Gebbert]

+1
I agree to 100%

Best regards
Soeren
Am 29.03.2014 22:18 schrieb "Helmut Kudrnovsky" <hellik at web.de>:

> Dear GRASS GIS PSC,
>
>
> margherita wrote
> > Dear Luca,
> >
> > thank you for raising this issue,
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 7:04 AM, Luca Delucchi <
>
> > lucadeluge@
>
> > > wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> with the upcoming GRASS 7 release we have to many branches to maintain
> >> (releasebranch6, devbranch6, releasebranch7 and trunk).
> >> Can I ask you to take a decision about the future of all this branches?
> >>
> >> I could suggest something like:
> >> - keep releasebranch6 only for important bugfixes, no new feature and
> >> starting to forget it
> >> - put in reading mode or remove (after backport the differences with
> >> grass64) devbranch6
> >> - releasebranch7 is the new stable release branch, so new features
> >> only when we are far from release a new version
> >> - trunk for new feature
> >>
> >> what do you think?
> >>
> >
> > I'm in favor. Having too many branches from users point of view only
> > raises
> > confusion, and for developers is much more effort required to keep track
> > of
> > everything.
> >
> > My 2c
> > Regards,
> > Madi
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot
> >> Best regards
> >>
> >> --
> >> ciao
> >> Luca
> >>
> >> http://gis.cri.fmach.it/delucchi/
> >> www.lucadelu.org
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> >
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Dr. Margherita DI LEO
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> >
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> it was a pleasure to meet GRASS devs but also GRASS users at the Vienna
> OSGeo Code Sprint [1] which was also a GRASS community sprint [2].
> In addition it was a honour for me to help getting beta release of GRASS
> GIS
> 7.0.0, the upcoming stable release, into the wild.
>
> Now for us, GRASS devs _and_ users, there are now several branches of GRASS
> GIS (trunk, releasebranch7, releasebranch6, develbranch6) [4] to maintain,
> test and use.
>
> A lot of important improvements and new, exciting and fancy features are
> now
> in trunk and releasebranch7 which will never be backported to
> releasebranch6
> and so on.
>
> It is time for GRASS devs _and_ users to focus development on and maintain,
> improve, test and use GRASS7.
>
> As I trust in GRASS devs experience and carefulness of code submitting and
> in order
>
> (1) to _minimize_ GRASS user's confusion which version to test, to use and
> to give feedback for improvements and bug fixing
>
> and
>
> (2) to _reduce_ GRASS dev's burden to maintain, develop, improve and to fix
> bugs in trunk and 3 branches
>
> I request the retirement of GRASS6.5.svn (=develbranch6) and keep
> releasebranch6 for release only in bug fixing mode and trunk and
> releasebranch7 for future improvements and development.
>
> best regards
> Helmut
> GRASS user, sometimes lightweight GRASS dev, osgeo charter member
>
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Vienna_Code_Sprint_2014
> [2] http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Vienna_2014
> [3]
> http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Talk:GRASS_Community_Sprint_Vienna_2014
> [4] http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass
>
>
>
>
> -----
> best regards
> Helmut
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