Re: [GRASS-dev] release announcement preparations

2012-02-14 Thread Markus Neteler
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Hamish wrote: > Helena wrote: >> > I read all of the documents listed below and they look >> > good, I don't see anything that needs to be changed, > > Martin: >> same here. Thanks for preparing these materials. > > cheers, and thanks too to Michael for doing the c

Re: [GRASS-dev] release announcement preparations

2012-02-11 Thread Hamish
Helena wrote: > > I read all of the documents listed below and they look > > good, I don't see anything that needs to be changed, Martin: > same here. Thanks for preparing these materials. cheers, and thanks too to Michael for doing the copy editing. Hamish

Re: [GRASS-dev] release announcement preparations

2012-02-11 Thread glynn
Hamish wrote: > fwiw, I notice bzip2 makes a remarkable difference to the file size. I > wonder if we should switch to it from gzip? (same for the main source > tarball although I haven't looked at the size difference for that) bzip2 started displacing gzip about a decade ago for situations wher

Re: [GRASS-dev] release announcement preparations

2012-02-11 Thread Anne Ghisla
On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 06:22:43 -0800 (PST) Hamish wrote: > Hi all, Hi Hamish, all, > -second call- > > if you have anything to add to >https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.4.2-News > > please do it now, so that it can be added to the main announcement > too. > > once that's done we

Re: [GRASS-dev] release announcement preparations

2012-02-11 Thread Hamish
Helena wrote: > I read all of the documents listed below and they look good, thanks > I don't see anything that needs to be changed, ok, good > except maybe for the ChangeLog which seems to be a gz file fwiw, I notice bzip2 makes a remarkable difference to the file size. I wonder if we should

Re: [GRASS-dev] release announcement preparations

2012-02-11 Thread Martin Landa
Hi, 2012/2/11 Helena Mitasova : > I read all of the documents listed below and they look good, I don't see > anything that needs to be changed, same here. Thanks for preparing these materials. Martin -- Martin Landa * http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa _

Re: [GRASS-dev] release announcement preparations

2012-02-10 Thread Helena Mitasova
Hamish I read all of the documents listed below and they look good, I don't see anything that needs to be changed, except maybe for the ChangeLog which seems to be a gz file (which my Mac just downloads as a file that cannot be opened, but it has a text with error message in it) - should it be a

Re: [GRASS-dev] release announcement preparations

2012-02-08 Thread Hamish
Hi all, -second call- if you have anything to add to https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.4.2-News please do it now, so that it can be added to the main announcement too. once that's done we can put out the call for translations of the short blurb (abstract) and the full release anno

Re: [GRASS-dev] release announcement preparations

2012-02-05 Thread Hamish
Hamish wrote: > I have not read through the 1300 changelog entries > since 6.4.1 (oops, 1300 changes since 6.4.0; 750 since 6.4.1) ___ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev

[GRASS-dev] release announcement preparations

2012-02-05 Thread Hamish
Hi, I think the short blurb (abstract) is nearing completion, http://grass.osgeo.org/announces/abstract_grass642.txt please review/proofread/comment.. The main announcement still needs lots of work, http://grass.osgeo.org/announces/announce_grass642.html I think to consolidate some of the r