[GRASS-dev] [[DebianGIS] Freezing is not so far in the future, aka Where 1.0]

FYI
pc

-------- Messaggio Originale --------
Oggetto: [DebianGIS] Freezing is not so far in the future, aka Where 1.0
Data: Mon, 12 May 2008 20:45:19 +0200
Da: Francesco P. Lovergine <frankie@debian.org>
A: pkg-grass-general@lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi all

This message is a very informal and incomplete report about
our Status of the Map.

I would remind that package freezing is roughly expected in mid July.

People is warmly invited to think ASAP what upstream versions should go into
Lenny. Two months are not a so long time in the future and please
consider that our packages have a not so large user base for testing.
Many packages also have a quite long dependencies chain which could
slow down britney job. So be very careful and defensive in uploading
new versions.

There will be the possibility of uploading GDAL 1.5.2 (probably), hdf5
1.6.7 and
hdf4 4.2r1 for lenny. IMHO grass is already frozen (but for a probable
6.3.0 preview version to be uploaded in parallel with the stable
release). It would be nice to know if we have already to consider
frozen PostGis and Mapserver, but for some minor adjustment.
If people had to point patches for known upstream issues it would
be great.

...

Finally, we are still lacking human resources. Which is not a news
for this project, but I can see the same problems in other
teams, such as the Tcl/Tk group, sigh. We are in a bit better status
than one year ago anyway. I would prefer that some folks who
anyway do some packaging efforts out there in the GIS world would
collaborate here. But hey, we are in a free world and I know
that Debian standars are quite high and demanding ...

Happy gis-hacking to all

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Paolo Cavallini, see: * http://www.faunalia.it/pc *

Ah, so mid July.

Mhhh, looking at
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&milestone=6.4.0

?!

Markus

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini@faunalia.it> wrote:

FYI
pc

-------- Messaggio Originale --------
Oggetto: [DebianGIS] Freezing is not so far in the future, aka Where 1.0
Data: Mon, 12 May 2008 20:45:19 +0200
Da: Francesco P. Lovergine <frankie@debian.org>
A: pkg-grass-general@lists.alioth.debian.org

...

I would remind that package freezing is roughly expected in mid July.

People is warmly invited to think ASAP what upstream versions should go into
Lenny. Two months are not a so long time in the future and please
consider that our packages have a not so large user base for testing.

...

Markus Neteler ha scritto:

Ah, so mid July.

Mhhh, looking at
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&milestone=6.4.0

so it seems we have to live with 6.2? Too bad...
All the best.
pc
--
Paolo Cavallini, see: * http://www.faunalia.it/pc *

Markus Neteler ha scritto:

http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&milestone=6.4.0

BTW: what about setting more "Component" fields in the trac? E.g., an
NVIZ field would seem appropriate, etc.
All the best.
pc
--
Paolo Cavallini, see: * http://www.faunalia.it/pc *

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini@faunalia.it> wrote:

Markus Neteler ha scritto:

Ah, so mid July.

Mhhh, looking at
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&milestone=6.4.0

so it seems we have to live with 6.2? Too bad...

Just fix the 78 or so bugs... several of them contain patches which need to
be tested. Something for power users :slight_smile:

Markus

Markus:

> Ah, so mid July.

well, no one really knows with Debian, some time starting at July anyway.

Paolo:

so it seems we have to live with 6.2? Too bad...

I think even if we released 6.4.0 last month it might not make it into lenny.

Frankie wrote:
[...]

IMHO grass is already frozen (but for a probable 6.3.0 preview version
to be uploaded in parallel with the stable release).

there is always Debian/experimental and backports.org to put newer packages.

Hamish

Paolo:

BTW: what about setting more "Component" fields
in the trac? E.g., an
NVIZ field would seem appropriate, etc.

also a platform one would be nice (mswin, osx, linux, all, other, ..)

H

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 1:48 AM, Hamish <hamish_b@yahoo.com> wrote:

Paolo:

BTW: what about setting more "Component" fields
in the trac? E.g., an
NVIZ field would seem appropriate, etc.

NVIZ done and related bugs updated.

also a platform one would be nice (mswin, osx, linux, all, other, ..)

I see that QGIS has it [1] - how to add that? I cannot see anything related
in trac admin.
Paolo, could you check with the QGIS trac admin?

Markus

[1] eg http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1044