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
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On Mar 19, 2013, at 2:25 AM, Moritz Lennert
wrote:
> On 18/03/13 23:04, Markus Neteler wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Rainer M Krug 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
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