(I take liberty to make this a new thread) On Jan 30, 2008 7:12 AM, Hamish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <2 cents> > My hope is that we release 6.3.0 soon so we can focus on new business. > > ie soon after that is away cut a new releasebranch_6_4 and declare > svn-trunk to be for GRASS 7 --- why wait? AFAIK no one has plans for a > 6.6 release, and if one day they do, that can be hewn from > releasebranch_6_4.
I fully agree. Since the OSGeo migration is almost done and SVN/trac are operative, let's go ahead. > I think it is a big mistake to try and do two development branches at > the same time then try and merge changes between them. > > wxGUI is the anomaly, but luckily it is a somewhat independent beast. I > would suggest continuing to work on it in releasebranch_6_4 until such > time as we tag 6.4.0pre1 and move into bugfix-only mode. At that point > we would port the GUI to GRASS 7 and move all new GUI development > there. > This presupposes that in the early days of GRASS 7 (the radical change > period) we only need a disposable barebones GUI. Right. > Continuing development on native MS-Windows support for 6.4 is more > entwined with the C code, but I hope we are past the bulk of those > changes already and can limit the multi-branch merges to those (and > bugs of course). Also agreed. > It is unclear to me where new documentation and translation efforts > should be focused during that period. 6.4 branch until the GUI freezes? > </2 cents> I assume that it will happen in the 6.4 branch since trunk/HEAD will undergo demolition and restructuring. I have drafted a management page here: http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7Planning Markus _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
