I think this is a good idea. At the moment, GRASS 7 seems stable and everything or almost everything is working for Mac. There are a few issues, but not major ones. One thing I remember is a problem with the display of north arrows. Volume display is still unstable, but that is a problem with both ver. 6 and 7.
Michael ______________________________ C. Michael Barton Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-2402 USA voice: 480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-727-9746 (CSDC) fax: 480-965-7671(SHESC), 480-727-0709 (CSDC) www: http://csdc.asu.edu, http://shesc.asu.edu http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton On Mar 19, 2013, at 2:25 AM, Moritz Lennert <[email protected]> wrote: > On 18/03/13 23:04, Markus Neteler wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Rainer M Krug<[email protected]> wrote: >> ... >>> Following the discussion, I would like to install GRASS 7 weekly snapshot. >>> I relized the "Binary" >>> link (http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/) but it points back to the >>> Linux Download page, >>> but I could not find any binaries there for GRASS 7? Maybe this link should >>> be removed? >>> >>> Just wondering, but not a problem, as I am going to install from source >>> anyway. >> >> In the past days I have cleaned up several of the Web pages. >> I hope they are much clearer now. GRASS 7 downloads are now properly >> mentioned as well. > > Much clearer now ! > > I would like to take this debate as an opportunity to touch upon the question > of a possible tech-preview release of GRASS7. > > Several reasons for that: > > - More and more people are using it (and we are pushing more and more people > toward using it). Binaries are available for windows and mac, but not for > most Linux distributions. A preview release might make it easier for these > distributions to package grass7 and make it available to a larger audience. > > - In many institutions it is (understandably) not easy to convince > IT-managers to install development snapshots instead of released software. > Having an official release (even if it is only a tech-preview release) should > make it easier to install grass7 in institutional settings. > > - I think that grass7 is in a form where we can start advertising it more > widely and more officially. In terms of timing, it would be great to be able > to get this out before FOSS4G. > > - From my own egotistical viewpoint, I would love to be able to use grass7 in > my classes next school year, and having a release would make it much easier > for me to do that. > > Concretely, I see the following type of procedure to make it possible: > > - Freeze the svn repository for any direct new commits for a short period > (I'd say max 1-2 weeks). Only a few "release managers" should still have > direct commit access at this point. (Another way to do it would be to keep > commit rights open to anyone, and the role of the release managers would be > to control all commits and revert those that aren't simple bug fixes during > the freeze). > > - Publish the state of the code at the beginning of the freeze as RC1 with a > wide call for testing. > > - Only bug fix* commits. > > - Publish RC2 after some bug fixing (possibly after one week). > > - Continue bug fixing*. > > - Release tech-preview (possibly at the end of week 2) with a huge disclaimer > that this is a tech-preview release and not considered final and stable. > > - Open repository again for more general development. > > > I don't think we should create a release branch as this would just be a > tech-preview snaphot of the ongoing development. > > This obviously implies that we plan ahead and that all developers know when > this freeze will happen, thus avoiding to commit any large and fundamental > changes just before the freeze. And that we all put aside time during that > freeze for testing and bug fixing. > > What do you think ? > > Moritz > _______________________________________________ > grass-psc mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-psc _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
