On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Martin Landa <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I wonder if we can release 6.4.0, some dates > > last stable: 6.2.0 - 2006/10/31 > > 6.4.0 story: > > rc1 - 2008/12/23 > ... > rc5 - 2009/06/09 > > This is absolutely *unacceptable*,
I agree, but... > after one year from rc1 the final > release is not ready. It's not good sign. well: in my opinion the RC1 has been prepared too early. It was premature to think that we are close to a release in December 2008. Anyway... > I know that everyone is doing his/her best. We just need to be a bit > realistic and bear in mind manpower of the development team. > > I just wonder about bugs which are marked as blockers for some months. http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&group=type&priority=blocker&priority=critical&milestone=6.4.0&order=priority > If nobody is going to fixed them they cannot be marked as blockers. > Then reporter should find someone to fix them, at the end the rc-stage > takes one year... I see: A) winGRASS related: * 580 WinGRASS: $GISBASE/etc/gui/scripts/ require something like $(EXE) to run -> status unclear to me * 759 r.patch non-functional in WinGRASS 6.4 svn on Vista -> awaiting guru comment * 809 v.db.addtable consistently fails in winGrass -> apparently not reproducable? * 843 v.digit broken on new WinGrass release -> contains a suggestion B) Misc * 72 PNG driver: boundary rendering is off by one pixel -> awaiting guru comment * 384 wxGUI: vdigit crashes on a big map -> who can confirm? * 461 v.to.db crashes on a shapefile connected with v.external -> still valid? I personally vote for going ahead and publishing this week RC6 and after 1-2 weeks (really) the final version. A lot of patches should go into 6.4.1 then which are already piling up. Markus _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
