Opened 8 years ago
Closed 7 years ago
#3092 closed enhancement (wontfix)
Include experimental modules in GRASS
| Reported by: | rkrug | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 7.4.1 |
| Component: | Default | Version: | unspecified |
| Keywords: | addon module beta experimental | Cc: | |
| CPU: | All | Platform: | All |
Description
Based on the discussion on grass-dev http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.devel/70427 the suggestion came up to add experimental / beta / alpha modules (addons, ...) to GRASS. As these modules are not stable / extensively used or tested yet and their interfaces and functionality can change, I would suggest the following mechanism:
1) add [experimental] / [beta] / ... behind the in the menu 2) disable the experimental / beta / ... addons by default 3) add an option to enable all the experimental / beta / ... addons, which can than state "experimental, might make your computer explode, use at own risk and only in well ventilated rooms"...
By doing this, not extensively tested addons can be shipped with GRASS and get exposure to wider testing. On the other hand, they would only be available when explicitely asked for and informed about their non-stable natire.
Change History (7)
comment:1 by , 8 years ago
comment:2 by , 8 years ago
Isn't the GRASS GIS Addons repo exactly the place for experiments and core preparation?
comment:4 by , 8 years ago
| Milestone: | 7.2.1 → 7.2.2 |
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comment:5 by , 7 years ago
| Milestone: | 7.2.2 → 7.4.0 |
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All enhancement tickets should be assigned to 7.4 milestone.
Based on the discussion on grass-dev http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.devel/70427 the suggestion came up to add experimental / beta / alpha modules (addons, ...) to GRASS. As these modules are not stable / extensively used or tested yet and their interfaces and functionality can change, I would suggest the following mechanism:
1) add [experimental] / [beta] / ... behind the in the menu
2) disable the experimental / beta / ... addons by default
3) add an option to enable all the experimental / beta / ... addons, which can than state "experimental, might make your computer explode, use at own risk and only in well ventilated rooms"...
By doing this, not extensively tested addons can be shipped with GRASS and get exposure to wider testing. On the other hand, they would only be available when explicitely asked for and informed about their non-stable natire.