[GRASS-dev] Week 7 report: Creation of a new GRASS GIS startup mechanism

Hello Community,

I am sending my report for Week 7 (July 13-July 19). The report can also be found in the project wiki: https://trac.osgeo.org/…dow.

1) What did I complete this week?

I finalized the PR Add multiple GRASS databases (see ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/761, ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/issues/741). I also made several smaller PRs related to several issues. As we would like distinguish different layers according to lock and ownership in future, it was necessary to distinguish the label and name of nodes (see ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/783, ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/issues/780). I also changed the order of Layer Manager tabs and a label “Layers” to “Display” (see ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/802, ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/issues/799). Simultaneously, I am working on bigger PRs related to new actions in Data Catalog. The first one adds Create New Location and Download Location actions to the database node in Data tab (see ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/790, ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/issues/747). The second one allows the Delete action on multiple selected mapsets (see ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/795, ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/issues/791).

2) What am I going to achieve next week?

As the paradigm has quite changed after the community video call on July 15 (startup screen will be probably removed), I will go ahead and add more functions and actions to Data Catalog which is now becoming the center point of the whole management in GRASS. First I am gonna focus on Adding new icons to the data catalog for several actions whose list is still broadening. This is related to the Issue ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/issues/800. There are also other issues related to the Data Catalog I am gonna address:

3) Is there any blocking issue?
No, it is not.

Regards,

Linda Kladivova