[GRASS5] GRASS release critical bugs list

Dear developers,

as we all want to get out 5.0.0. I would like to
put your attention to:

FreeGIS.org
  and
http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?q_queue=grass

I have reordered the BUGS file to have the [RC] bugs at top.
Please have a look at these. Is the RC status o.k., are other
bugs RC? At time I don't know how to tag a bug as release critical in
webrt. So there might be a few more.

Thanks for your time,

Markus

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On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:49:19AM +0000, Markus Neteler wrote:

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At time I don't know how to tag a bug as release critical in webrt.

You can raise the priority or/and set a due date.
Then then you can say: All bugs above priority 80 or something are
release critical.

Another possibility is to create some areas (you are able to do
this) and assign these labels to the bugs.
Usually this method is used to specify the area of the bug in more
details, but we can use it for any lableing if you do not like the
priority number method. :slight_smile:
  Bernhard

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On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:41:34AM +0100, Bernhard Reiter wrote:

On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:49:19AM +0000, Markus Neteler wrote:

> http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?q_queue=grass

> At time I don't know how to tag a bug as release critical in webrt.

You can raise the priority or/and set a due date.
Then then you can say: All bugs above priority 80 or something are
release critical.

Such a priority scale would be o.k. with me. The others?

Another possibility is to create some areas (you are able to do
this) and assign these labels to the bugs.
Usually this method is used to specify the area of the bug in more
details, but we can use it for any lableing if you do not like the
priority number method. :slight_smile:

I was thinking of three areas:

- bug
- RCbug
- wish (our TODO collection)

but I won't insist if the others prefer the priority method.

Markus

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Markus,

I checked the bugs and these are my comments:

RC]r.los:

  >r.los seems to work perfectly if the elevation data is UTM. But if the
  elevation data is latitude-longitude, like most of my elevation data, the
  output map looks like a hollow footprint`k

I don't think that this one is RC, there are more modules which do not support
lat/long (e.g. s.surf.rst), so the manual should just say that this command does
not support
lat/long (untill somebody so desperately needs it that he/she will do it). You
can always
project your DEM to UTM or other projection and run r.los. This is lack of
capability
rather than RC bug.

r.neighbors

  seems doesn't work with a float number
  when use median method. It fails in -0.001 value with 3x3 window.

I tried it for various windows sizes, it does something (it does not crash),
however the results
are always the same, so it does not seem to work properly. (average method works
OK,
I use it often). It may take some time to figure out what is wrong here, so I
would not
include it into release critical unless somebody is already working on it, but
there should be
a note in the manual. Getting the
installation and compilation bugs fixed is way much more more important.

r.to.sites -z does not output third dimension

    however r.to.sites -cz works o.k.

r.to.sites does not have -c (it is probably -a),
It worked for me (so I guess it was fixed):
r.to.sites -z sel80atest out=sel.80.test1
s.info sel.80.test1
         - - MIN - - - - MAX - -
        dim 1 618589.000000 619213.000000 Easting
        dim 2 3470493.000000 3470875.000000 Northing
        dim 3 226.628311 242.016052 No Label

nviz2.2: I have a surface with VERY small floating point values (ie 7.7e-011

etc).
   I've imported using r.in.ascii and all is OK in normal GRASS display.
   However, starting nviz you see the surface the right way up, then it flips
   as if all values become negative. Incr the zexagg just stretches the values
   towards the bottom of the screen. Any suggestions?

this is not a bug - the user just had to move his viewing position up.
Unfortunatelly
the settings in NVIZ are such that I often need to type in much larger number
(higher
viewing position) than what the slider (is that what it is called?) allows to do
interactivelly.
Markus you can remove this from the bugs list.

in some circumstances viewing data in Latitude-Longitude database

   leads to partly dark surface:

I get around this dark surface for rasters with small values (which is similar
problem
to the lat long) by increasing ambient light. I just found that when after
increasing ambient
light to see the surface I decrease it to zero, I don't get the dark surface
that I had before,
but the light works. So there is an obvious bug in lighting in NVIZ as it has
quite erratic
behavior. However this is not release critical.

I haven't found any mentioning of installation bugs or some other problems
that were discussed in this list - is that fixed now ? (I mean the problem with
dev
directory being a file or whatever the problem was)

Helena

P.S. I haven't agreed with any integration, distribution of our code with
Blackland GRASS,
it seems very likely that they have included the code which was already under
GPL (e.g. r.sun).
I like their modeling work (SWAT) and their research a lot, so I think that we
want to
collaborate but they must respect the GPL license. I need to read in more detail
what they are
doing - Bruce should be able to visit with them a clarify things in person, but
we need to
provide our input too.

Markus Neteler wrote:

Dear developers,

as we all want to get out 5.0.0. I would like to
put your attention to:

http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/~checkout~/grass/BUGS
  and
http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?q_queue=grass

I have reordered the BUGS file to have the [RC] bugs at top.
Please have a look at these. Is the RC status o.k., are other
bugs RC? At time I don't know how to tag a bug as release critical in
webrt. So there might be a few more.

Thanks for your time,

Markus

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P.S. I haven't agreed with any integration, distribution of our code with
Blackland GRASS,
it seems very likely that they have included the code which was already under
GPL (e.g. r.sun).
I like their modeling work (SWAT) and their research a lot, so I think that we
want to
collaborate but they must respect the GPL license. I need to read in more detail
what they are
doing - Bruce should be able to visit with them a clarify things in person, but
we need to
provide our input too.

Hi Helena,

The boys down at Blacklands know about the GPL. But all the code they use
is from the old 4.1 release. So I don;t think they are doing anything with the
new code. I've asked Srini about the possibility of releasing blg as gpl since
they are issuing a completely new version with new display functions. So I
asked him if maybe we could distribute the old one code and all. I am to talk
to him about that again soon. I can meet with Srini anytime so if there are
concerns,
let me know.

They have basically abandoned the SWATGRASS interface so I've got it here.
Been working on it as time allows to bring it up to fp, but that's a bit of a job.
Also
been working to get it up to SWAT 2000 standards. Lots of inputs have
changed in the new version. We work very closely with Jeff Arnold here on that.
It should be complete within the next 2 months.

Anything that we need addressed just let me know.

Bruce

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On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:49:19AM +0000, Markus Neteler wrote:

Dear developers,

as we all want to get out 5.0.0. I would like to
put your attention to:

http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/~checkout~/grass/BUGS
  and
http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?q_queue=grass

I have reordered the BUGS file to have the [RC] bugs at top.
Please have a look at these. Is the RC status o.k., are other
bugs RC? At time I don't know how to tag a bug as release critical in
webrt. So there might be a few more.

Thanks for your time,

I'd add r.proj to the [RC] list. It needs a small rewrite to not read
the entire raster into memory. It is useless with large rasters and
will seriously bog down your machine. I haven't had a chance to really
grok it, but I think "rowio" would be appropriate -- although, even that
wouldn't be required. I think at most it needs three rows in memory for
cubic interpolation.

Anybody else want to look at it?

--
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>

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On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:48:48AM -0600, Helena wrote:

Markus,

I checked the bugs and these are my comments:

>RC]r.los:
  >r.los seems to work perfectly if the elevation data is UTM. But if the
  elevation data is latitude-longitude, like most of my elevation data, the
  output map looks like a hollow footprint`k

I don't think that this one is RC, there are more modules which do not
support lat/long (e.g. s.surf.rst), so the manual should just say that
this command does not support lat/long (untill somebody so desperately
needs it that he/she will do it). You can always project your DEM to UTM
or other projection and run r.los. This is lack of capability rather than
RC bug.

That's right. I have added a test for lat/long, in this case r.los will
simply exit with a message.

Regards

Markus

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