GRASS 7 Release Planning

• Release scope: complete demolition and reconstruction (new display architecture, new raster library, new ...).
• The SVN trunk corresponds to GRASS 7 (for access, see here)
• ​http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_7_ideas_collection (to be merged into trac)

Already implemented

• New features in GRASS7 (already implemented)
• G3d (volume) library and modules in GRASS 7 (finished)

Planning & ongoing

Beta 4 release (TODOs): being planned as last beta before RC1

• #2409 - last call for options/flags/parameters consolidation
• temporal GIS backport to relbranch70
• remaining Python/PyGRASS lib backport to relbranch70
• fix #2439 (g.gui.iclass / wxdigit crashes)
• Solve whatever possible from ​http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/report/19
• DONE - ​Python docs (Sphinx) backport to relbranch70
• DONE - ​dead code cleanup

Beta 1-3 releases

• See "New features" above and Release/7.0.0beta-News

Source code changes:

• Display library in GRASS7 (planning & ongoing)
• Raster library in GRASS 7 (planning & ongoing)
• Vector library in GRASS 7 (planning & ongoing)
• Temporal extension for GRASS 7 (core functions are implemented, ongoing improvement)
  • ​Introduction of temporal modules
  • ​Available temporal modules
  • ​Temporal Library API
  • ​Tutorials (user contributed content)
  • Temporal GIS Algebra for Raster and Vector Data GSoC project 2013

Documentation

• Use Sphinx for Python API: partially done
• Documentation: update HTML manual pages to more recent technology (see examples by Vaclav Petras) and #151

Blockers

No results

Further issues

• Open bugs concerning GRASS 7
• List Open Enhancement Requests

General strategy

• GRASS 6.3.0 has been released from the releasebranch_6_3 branch
• a new develbranch_6 branch has been created (for access, see here)
• a new releasebranch_6_4 branch has been created (for access, see here)
• ​Announcement (2008, GRASS 7 development started)
• branches/releasebranch_7_0 has become GRASS 7.0.svn
• trunk has become GRASS 7.1.svn

Trunk is undergoing (radical) changes.

• wxgrass development will continue for now