Sorry to get back to this so late:
On 26/02/17 21:52, Markus Metz wrote:
On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 8:57 PM, Martin Landa <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
2017-02-26 20:33 GMT+01:00 Helmut Kudrnovsky <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>:
> spring 2017 - 7.4.0
> autumn 2017 - 7.4.1
7.4.0 in spring 2017??? You probably meant spring 2018?
Last release is 7.2.0 (Dec 2016), we even haven't released 7.2.1. It's
always harder to release 7.x.0 than point releases, like 7.2.x. So
less releases do not really help.
+1
IMHO more releases do help, e.g more frequent 7.2.x releases with bug fixes.
This is exactly the question: only bug fixes, or also small improvements
as Martin suggests.
Preparing 7.4.0 will take longer time, we need to prepare major
release news, create release branch and so on. A lot of work. Moreover
release branch should be created in advance, I guess ~ 5 months before
release.
There must be a good reason to release a new GRASS 7 branch, e.g. some
new exciting features or bug fixes that because of their complexity
could not be backported.
I think we should not place the expectations to high to minor release
versions. Especially if point releases are bug fixes only, then I think
that we should have more minor version releases with improvements, even
if they are more incremental than really exciting new features...
Moritz
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