Am 27. Dezember 2018 10:38:39 MEZ schrieb Markus Neteler <[email protected]>: >Dear all, > >we rather urgently need to publish trunk as the new stable version in >order to get rid of the current Python2 issues. >Python2 is close to EOL and being slowly dropped. Our interfaces to >other software including QGIS require Python3. Also packaging becomes >increasingly difficult on various operating systems as well as the >usage of GRASS GIS in cloud environments (Openshift etc). > >I would suggest to only publish a single release of GRASS GIS 7.6 and >to concentrate on the 7.8 release with Python3 support. > >Hence, I propose to start a new releasebranch_7_8 asap. > >The following maintenance scheme would result: > >- releasebranch_6_4: sleeping, rather EOL >- releasebranch_7_2: EOL >- releasebranch_7_4: LTS >- releasebranch_7_6: interim stable release >- releasebranch_7_8: LTS >- trunk: G79, towards 8 > >Again, we need to come to speed with Python3 support in terms of >actually releasing it and the current trunk version looks works quite >well. > >We may discuss to make 7.6 LTS and 7.4 EOL but many distros won't >allow to update to 7.6 nor a 7.6 LTS will motivate us to avoid >backporting and focus on 7.8 :-) > >Opinions?
+1 Moritz > >Markus > > >PS: >- EOL (End Of Life) >- LTS (Long Term Support) >_______________________________________________ >grass-dev mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
