On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 11:30 PM, Markus Neteler <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 10:14 PM, Martin Landa <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> major release 7.4.0 is almost one month old, we should think about >> time schedule for a next releases. Assuming that we are trying to >> release new (point) version every three/four months, 7.4.1 could be >> schedule to May [1]. > > That's good. Perhaps even earlier? Because I would like to see a new > release with ZSTD compression included since I cannot run trunk in > production and hesitate to heavily patch 7.4. locally. That would be > 7.6.0 then.
Indeed we may create a new 7.6 branch already earlier and phase out 7.2. > Yet some backports are open for 7.4.1 [4] > >> Meanwhile we could also release 7.2.3 [2] (7.2.2 has been released in >> 16/9/2017). In March or later (see overall of changes [3]), what do >> you think? > > Yes, a new 7.2.3 release soon as well. Yesterday I submitted a fix it > since it failed to compile on Fedora 28. Some other distros should be > tested as well before releasing (however, that does not take ages). > Maybe that would become the last 7.2.x then? We'll see. > > Also some backports are desired here: [5] For 7.2.3, I see only these relevant candidates left: * i18N: Install gettext to Python script modules to use translated strings extracted by r70817: r70818 * r.grow.distance: clean up after r68611: r69327 As Martin wrote: the authors in trunk may judge (here: Maris and Vaclav, respectively). I have started a draft trac page (please update as needed): https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/7.2.3-News Markus >> [1] https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/milestone/7.4.1 >> [2] https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/milestone/7.2.3 >> [3] >> https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset?reponame=&new=72284%40grass%2Fbranches%2Freleasebranch_7_2&old=71497%40grass%2Fbranches%2Freleasebranch_7_2 > > [4] https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7Planning#a7.4.1tobebackported > [5] https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7Planning#a7.2.3tobebackported _______________________________________________ grass-psc mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-psc
