Re: [GRASS-PSC] too many branches = retirement GRASS6.5.svn (=develbranch6)

2014-04-06 Thread Martin Landa
Hi Markus, 2014-04-06 10:01 GMT+02:00 Markus Metz markus.metz.gisw...@gmail.com: big strong +1 for me, Martin +1 from me too, with one comment: I will only backport bugfixes to a releasebranch, not new functionality. That includes releasebranch_7_0. The (my) objective is to stabilize any

Re: [GRASS-PSC] too many branches = retirement GRASS6.5.svn (=develbranch6)

2014-04-06 Thread Martin Landa
Dear PSC members, 2014-04-06 10:08 GMT+02:00 Martin Landa landa.mar...@gmail.com: +1 from me too, with one comment: I will only backport bugfixes to a releasebranch, not new functionality. That includes releasebranch_7_0. The (my) objective is to stabilize any releasebranch. this should

Re: [GRASS-PSC] too many branches = retirement GRASS6.5.svn (=develbranch6)

2014-04-06 Thread Markus Neteler
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Martin Landa landa.mar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, 2014-03-31 9:57 GMT+02:00 Sören Gebbert soerengebb...@googlemail.com: +1 I agree to 100% big strong +1 for me, Martin also from me: retire GRASS6.5.svn (=develbranch6). markusN

[GRASS-PSC] RFC3: New voting rules

2014-04-06 Thread Markus Neteler
PSC; since the voting discussion is scattered around in various email threads, I start a new one to separate it from ongoing motions. Please re-express your comments as answer to this email. RFC3: PSC Voting Procedures http://grass.osgeo.org/programming7/rfc3_psc.html Issues: - people are

Re: [GRASS-PSC] RFC3: New voting rules

2014-04-06 Thread Margherita Di Leo
Hi, On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Markus Neteler nete...@osgeo.org wrote: PSC; since the voting discussion is scattered around in various email threads, I start a new one to separate it from ongoing motions. Please re-express your comments as answer to this email. RFC3: PSC Voting

Re: [GRASS-PSC] too many branches = retirement GRASS6.5.svn (=develbranch6)

2014-04-06 Thread Moritz Lennert
On 06/04/14 13:46, Hamish wrote: First of all, I believe this discussion belongs on the grass-dev list, not PSC. See RFC1. CC'in to dev-list releasebranch70 should not have been branched until 7.0RC1. Until RC1 it is just wasted effort to keep the two of them as a 1:1 mirror, so what's

Re: [GRASS-PSC] RFC3: New voting rules

2014-04-06 Thread Scott Mitchell
Madi’s suggestion makes sense to me. I suppose that the wording of #2 could be modified to allow for the case where all members have already voted with no dissenting comments, if we think a rush situation might come up. I.e. instead of just increasing 4 days to 7 days, it could be worded as a

Re: [GRASS-PSC] RFC3: New voting rules

2014-04-06 Thread Moritz Lennert
On 06/04/14 12:48, Markus Neteler wrote: PSC; since the voting discussion is scattered around in various email threads, I start a new one to separate it from ongoing motions. Please re-express your comments as answer to this email. RFC3: PSC Voting Procedures

Re: [GRASS-PSC] too many branches = retirement GRASS6.5.svn (=develbranch6)

2014-04-06 Thread Martin Landa
Hi, 2014-04-06 15:16 GMT+02:00 Moritz Lennert mlenn...@club.worldonline.be: As already mentioned I was also a bit surprised by this. I'm not sure we are really ready for something more than a tech-preview (and not a real release), but maybe it could be the kick in the behind that we need to

Re: [GRASS-PSC] RFC3: New voting rules

2014-04-06 Thread Markus Neteler
On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Moritz Lennert mlenn...@club.worldonline.be wrote: On 06/04/14 12:48, Markus Neteler wrote: PSC; since the voting discussion is scattered around in various email threads, I start a new one to separate it from ongoing motions. Please re-express your comments

Re: [GRASS-PSC] too many branches = retirement GRASS6.5.svn (=develbranch6)

2014-04-06 Thread Markus Metz
On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Moritz Lennert mlenn...@club.worldonline.be wrote: On 06/04/14 13:46, Hamish wrote: As mentioned before, I wish to use the bulk of my grass dev time maintaining the grass 6 line. To do that properly I need a staging area, and devbr6 is it. I don't see the

Re: [GRASS-PSC] RFC3: New voting rules

2014-04-06 Thread Massimiliano Cannata
In my opinion things worked quite fine in the last years. - Madi proposal is also fine: 7 days may give more chance for everybody to be connected for voting. - Probably having majority only after that period would suffice for motion to pass. - Vote is mandatory for write access to SVN, otherwise

Re: [GRASS-PSC] [GRASS-dev] too many branches = retirement GRASS6.5.svn (=develbranch6)

2014-04-06 Thread Helena Mitasova
I believe that we have a communication problem here rather than a disagreement about the GRASS6.5: Hamish says: GRASS 6.x is already far along into bugfix maintenance mode. *Please, just leave it to naturally and quietly make its way into history.* I wish to use the bulk of my grass dev time

Re: [GRASS-PSC] RFC3: New voting rules

2014-04-06 Thread Yann Chemin
I second Helena on quorum (min 51%), and also +1 for the 7 days suggestion of MaDi. On 7 April 2014 06:19, Helena Mitasova hmit...@ncsu.edu wrote: I agree with the voting rules with the following changes/comments: - change 4 business days to seven days to avoid confusion given that business