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

2014-04-07 Thread Moritz Lennert
On 06/04/14 15:25, Martin Landa wrote: Hi, 2014-04-06 15:16 GMT+02:00 Moritz Lennert : 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

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

2014-04-06 Thread Vaclav Petras
One of topic note: On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Hamish wrote: > I wrote - and thought, sent - a long email about this some days ago, but > yahoo or something seems to have eaten it as I don't see it in the list > archive. frustrating as I already cleared my local copy! This is unfortunate.

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

2014-04-06 Thread Massimiliano Cannata
My 1 cent or less... I think grass7 shold be the focus of the project now, the place where new stuff should be developed, and that versions 6 are for bugfix only. Why should I develop something new not in the latest software version? All this thinking of a "good enough " version 7 (which I think

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 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 need for a devbr6 becau

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

2014-04-06 Thread Helmut Kudrnovsky
Martin Landa wrote > 2014-04-06 15:16 GMT+02:00 Moritz Lennert > >> Hamish, maybe you could be the official grass6 maintainer, managing the >> whole grass6 development in the way you propose, i.e. any new development >> and bugfixes first go into grass6dev for a period of testing, before >> _you_

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

2014-04-06 Thread Martin Landa
2014-04-06 15:16 GMT+02:00 Moritz Lennert : > Hamish, maybe you could be the official grass6 maintainer, managing the > whole grass6 development in the way you propose, i.e. any new development > and bugfixes first go into grass6dev for a period of testing, before _you_ > make the decision that so

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 : > 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 once > and for all move over

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 the

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

2014-04-06 Thread Hamish
Hi, I wrote - and thought, sent - a long email about this some days ago, but yahoo or something seems to have eaten it as I don't see it in the list archive. frustrating as I already cleared my local copy! First of all, I believe this discussion belongs on the grass-dev list, not PSC. See RFC

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 wrote: > Hi all, > > 2014-03-31 9:57 GMT+02:00 Sören Gebbert : >> +1 >> I agree to 100% > > big strong +1 for me, Martin also from me: retire GRASS6.5.svn (=develbranch6). markusN ___ grass-psc mailing li

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 : >> +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 become a rule, see

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 : >> 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 releasebranch. this should

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

2014-04-06 Thread Markus Metz
Hi all, On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Martin Landa wrote: > Hi all, > > 2014-03-31 9:57 GMT+02:00 Sören Gebbert : >> +1 >> I agree to 100% > > 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

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

2014-03-31 Thread Martin Landa
Hi all, 2014-03-31 9:57 GMT+02:00 Sören Gebbert : > +1 > I agree to 100% big strong +1 for me, Martin ___ grass-psc mailing list grass-psc@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-psc

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

2014-03-31 Thread Sören Gebbert
+1 I agree to 100% Best regards Soeren Am 29.03.2014 22:18 schrieb "Helmut Kudrnovsky" : > 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: > >> > >> > >> w

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

2014-03-30 Thread Yann Chemin
+1 On 30 March 2014 02:47, Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote: > 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

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

2014-03-29 Thread Helmut Kudrnovsky
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