FOR YOUR INFORMATION
The following is a tentative release schedule. Please be advised
of the deadlines, and pass the information on to anyone else in
your agency or organization who might need to know about it. We
would like to try and stick to these dates as closely as possi-
ble, but that is contingent upon several things:
-everyone's cooperation and help in meeting deadlines, testing and
providing bug reports, and compilation on a specific hardware
platform when necessary
-contributors' help in providing new documentation, or other items
which need to accompany the distribution of the release
-contributors' willingness and availability to provide bug fixes
or documentation enhancements deemed necessary after the
testing/review process
We at OGI have been working very hard to hire and train some ad-
ditional staff in anticipation of the work load involved in this
task. It is our hope that we can pull this off and stay on
schedule, but since it is the first time that our office has per-
formed this duty, and since many of our employees are somewhat or
completely new to GRASS, we ask for your patience and understand-
ing as we learn.
RELEASE SCHEDULE FOR GRASS 4.1
Software Contributions Due September 4th
Integration & Alpha Testing September 4th - October 26th
Beta Testing October 26th - November 30th
Bug Fixing November 30th - February 15th
Final compiling, completion of CD? February 15th- February 30th
Initial distribution by the beginning of March
Anyone wanting to contribute software to this version must have
it to OGI by September 4th, along with an accompanying signed
release form (see info below). We prefer that you put your
software in tar format, and, if mailed, sent to us on 1/4" tape.
If software contributions are made via the Internet, email about
its contribution should be sent to both Marji and Michael
(larson@zorro.cecer.army.mil and shapiro@zorro.cecer.army.mil)
and the release form can be faxed or mailed to:
USACERL
Attn: Marji Larson, EL-EGI
PO Box 9005
Champaign, IL 61826-9005
FAX: 217-373-7222
We have added a release form which MUST accompany all software
contributions to GRASS 4.1. This is a legal form, stating that
you intend to contribute this module/program to the public
domain, and that you understand the implications of what this
means. For now, you may get a hard copy mailed or faxed to you
by contacting the GRASS Information Center (217-373-7220, or
1-800-USA-CERL, ext. 220 from outside IL and 1-800-252-7122, ext.
220 from inside IL). We hope to get an on-line copy of this from
the lawyer to put onto the ftp site soon.
You may also be interested in an accompanying document that gives
some information on categories of GRASS source code. It can be
found on the ftp site under the directory: grass4.1/ReleaseInfo.
-Marji Larson