+1 I agree to 100% Best regards Soeren Am 29.03.2014 22:18 schrieb "Helmut Kudrnovsky" <hel...@web.de>:
> Dear GRASS GIS PSC, > > > margherita wrote > > Dear Luca, > > > > thank you for raising this issue, > > > > On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 7:04 AM, Luca Delucchi < > > > lucadeluge@ > > > > wrote: > >> > >> > >> with the upcoming GRASS 7 release we have to many branches to maintain > >> (releasebranch6, devbranch6, releasebranch7 and trunk). > >> Can I ask you to take a decision about the future of all this branches? > >> > >> I could suggest something like: > >> - keep releasebranch6 only for important bugfixes, no new feature and > >> starting to forget it > >> - put in reading mode or remove (after backport the differences with > >> grass64) devbranch6 > >> - releasebranch7 is the new stable release branch, so new features > >> only when we are far from release a new version > >> - trunk for new feature > >> > >> what do you think? > >> > > > > I'm in favor. Having too many branches from users point of view only > > raises > > confusion, and for developers is much more effort required to keep track > > of > > everything. > > > > My 2c > > Regards, > > Madi > > > >> > >> Thanks a lot > >> Best regards > >> > >> -- > >> ciao > >> Luca > >> > >> http://gis.cri.fmach.it/delucchi/ > >> www.lucadelu.org > >> _______________________________________________ > >> grass-psc mailing list > >> > > > grass-psc@.osgeo > > >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-psc > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Best regards, > > > > Dr. Margherita DI LEO > > Scientific / technical project officer > > > > European Commission - DG JRC > > Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) > > Via Fermi, 2749 > > I-21027 Ispra (VA) - Italy - TP 261 > > > > Tel. +39 0332 78 3600 > > > margherita.di-leo@.europa > > > > > Disclaimer: The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may > not > > in any circumstance be regarded as stating an official position of the > > European Commission. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > grass-psc mailing list > > > grass-psc@.osgeo > > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-psc > > it was a pleasure to meet GRASS devs but also GRASS users at the Vienna > OSGeo Code Sprint [1] which was also a GRASS community sprint [2]. > In addition it was a honour for me to help getting beta release of GRASS > GIS > 7.0.0, the upcoming stable release, into the wild. > > Now for us, GRASS devs _and_ users, there are now several branches of GRASS > GIS (trunk, releasebranch7, releasebranch6, develbranch6) [4] to maintain, > test and use. > > A lot of important improvements and new, exciting and fancy features are > now > in trunk and releasebranch7 which will never be backported to > releasebranch6 > and so on. > > It is time for GRASS devs _and_ users to focus development on and maintain, > improve, test and use GRASS7. > > As I trust in GRASS devs experience and carefulness of code submitting and > in order > > (1) to _minimize_ GRASS user's confusion which version to test, to use and > to give feedback for improvements and bug fixing > > and > > (2) to _reduce_ GRASS dev's burden to maintain, develop, improve and to fix > bugs in trunk and 3 branches > > I request the retirement of GRASS6.5.svn (=develbranch6) and keep > releasebranch6 for release only in bug fixing mode and trunk and > releasebranch7 for future improvements and development. > > best regards > Helmut > GRASS user, sometimes lightweight GRASS dev, osgeo charter member > > [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Vienna_Code_Sprint_2014 > [2] http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Vienna_2014 > [3] > http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Talk:GRASS_Community_Sprint_Vienna_2014 > [4] http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass > > > > > ----- > best regards > Helmut > -- > View this message in context: > http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/too-many-branches-tp5131993p5132059.html > Sent from the GRASS-PSC mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > grass-psc mailing list > grass-psc@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-psc >
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