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

7.0.0RC1 (planned for 29 Dec 2014 14 Jan 2015)

• #2409 - last call for options/flags/parameters consolidation
• Solve whatever possible from ​http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/report/19
• Update Release/7.0.0RC1-News

To be backported:

• r.distance: r60566, r60565, r60564, r60563, r60497
• g.rename: r60976
• manage/lister: r62085

Relevant differences - to be clarified:

• lib/db/dbmi_base/connect.c
• lib/driver/text3.c (martinl) r63461
• lib/gis/strings.c G_chop() (Markus Metz) r63308
• Change handling of display frame, graphical clip window (Glynn) (r62026 + r62036)
• lib/python/script/core.py (martinl) r63528
• db.connect substitute variables for database name (-cpd) (martinl) r59671
• r.proj bugfixes (Markus Metz) r63697
• r.spread (Vaclav) r63777
• new r3 modules by Anna (perhaps yet experimental)
• checks for Vect_open_* return value to avoid potential segmentation fault: r60054 <<-- wasn't the idea to avoid these ugly tests in G7?
• lib/vector/Vlib/ascii.c (Markus Metz) r63599, r63596
• lib/vector/Vlib/build.c (Markus Metz) r61492
• lib/vector/Vlib/line.c (Markus Metz) r61978
• lib/vector/Vlib/snap.c (Markus Metz) r63601, r63645, r63918
• lib/vector/Vlib/write_nat.c (Markus Metz) r63404
• lib/vector/Vlib/remove_areas.c (Markus Metz) r61491

To be removed:

• v.in.sites
• old_vector and v.convert (MartinL) r63930, r63931

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

7.0.0Beta 4 release: planned as last beta before RC1

• released, see Release/7.0.0beta-News
• remaining Python/PyGRASS lib differences: backport to relbranch70
• fix #2439 (g.gui.iclass / wxdigit crashes)
• temporal GIS backport to relbranch70
• backport manual page style
• update i18N .po files
• ​Python docs (Sphinx) backport to relbranch70
• ​dead code cleanup

7.0.0Beta 1-3 releases

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

• 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
• wxgrass development will continue for now