On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 4:46 PM, Markus Neteler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > since GRASS GIS is a truly long term project (remember its 33rd > "birthday" on July 29th!) we need to get out version 6.4.6. See also the > https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/roadmap > > A few relevant fixes got accumulated in the 6.4 release branch, so > time to publish a new minor release. > > Following our proposed > http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/RFC/4_ReleaseProcedure > the release procedure would be: > > Step 1 - Proposal of release: Done. > > Step 2 (day X) - Soft freeze of release branch: suggestion 6 July 2016 :-)
Well, now we are 16th of July. > Step 3 (X+30 days) - Hard freeze & RC1: > [important at least for the winGRASS package] > > ... etc according to RFC4. > > Coordination is done here: > http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass6Planning > > To collect the changes I have started a News page at: > https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.4.6-News For the record: I have just made three important backports in r.terraflow and libiostream: r68988 + r68989 + r68990 which fix compilation issues with GCC 6. Please test. > Suggestion: if nobody has complex submissions to be done, we may even > shorten step 2 to less than 30 days. I'm still of that opinion. Best, Markus -- Markus Neteler http://www.mundialis.de - free data with free software http://grass.osgeo.org http://courses.neteler.org/blog _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
