Re: [release planning] GRASS GIS 8: create new release branch

Vaclav Petras <[email protected]> Fri, 14 May 2021 22:05:09 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gis.grass.devel
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On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 11:10 AM Markus Neteler <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Let me suggest to create a new release branch in the next two weeks
> ...
>
> Now, the question is, also to avoid excessive cherry-picking of fixes
> and changes from master (to be called 8.1 then), which of the open PR
> may be merged soon?
>

I actually expected that you would be a "beta" release, not an RC, marked
by tagging a commit on master branch with the code as is. This would avoid
any backporting, but perhaps, it is not creating enough focus for 8.0 and
having a 8.0 branch gives more freedom in what goes into the master branch.

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