GRASS 7 Release Planning

• Release scope: new display architecture, new raster library, new features such as temporal data handling...
• 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 version 7.0 (already implemented)
• 3D raster library and modules in version 7 (finished)
• ​Introduction of temporal modules | ​Available temporal modules | ​Tutorials (user contributed content)
• New features in version 7.2
• New features in version 7.4

Planning & ongoing

Source code changes:

• Display library in GRASS 7 (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)
  • ​Temporal Library API
  • Temporal GIS Algebra for Raster and Vector Data GSoC project 2013

Documentation

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

trunk

• preserve EPSG code when creating a new location from WKT (Well Known Text) or GDAL/OGR input (applies to gis library, general, raster, and vector modules)

7.4.1 (to be backported)

• i.atcorr: backport S2B support, S2A update and other fixes
• r72030 libraster: more informative messages when reading a row fails
• r72031 libgis: more informative messages when (de)compression fails
• r72042 libgis: add warnings when writing compressed data fails
• r72098 r.external.out: write CRS (#3059)
• r72159 r.external.out/r.out.gdal: add CRS EPSG code if available
• r72203 libinit: init: more messages for invalid location or mapset
• i.ortho.photo: complete documentation update, see
  • "man page of g.gui.image2target" - ​https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2017-November/086676.html
  • fix #3467
• Transifex sync
  • important: grass*_lv.po are more recent in SVN! Do not overwrite from Transifex but put into Transifex~~
  • all others: update from Transifex

7.2.3 (to be backported)

• i18N: Install gettext to Python script modules to use translated strings extracted by r70817: r70818
• r.grow.distance: clean up after r68611: r69327
• lib/python/temporal: major differences to be checked TODO
• vector modules: Added layer specific database information to v.info extended metadata flag: r69535 done in r72023
• r.in.srtm: Print an error instead of failing in a XY location: r70819 done in r72022

postponed:

• d.linegraph: a series of improvements, see ​https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/log/grass/trunk/display/d.linegraph/main.c (wenzeslaus: most are improvements/features, a lot of code changed, leaving it for 7.4)
• i.atcorr: Sentinel-2A r70161 (Test feedback in ML needed first, leaving it for 7.4)
• r.in.lidar: Storage type (wenzeslaus: not sure what it is, but code is not identical in 7.2 and trunk, leaving it for 7.4)
• v.what.strds: add capabilities to use names also for temporal dataset with minutes and seconds granularity: r69331 (leaving it for 7.4)

Blockers

No results

Critical issues

No results

Further issues

• Open bugs concerning GRASS 7
• List Open Enhancement Requests

Addon candidate to be moved to trunk

Comment from Moritz: At one point we said that only addons that have tests should go into core. AFAICS, none of the below have tests [edit: r.object.geometry now has some tests]...

Interesting:

• G7A:r.object.geometry - +/- equivalent to v.to.db, but for raster objects: very useful for many other modules (notably OBIA)
• G7A:r.vect.stats - very simple, but nice functionality to have in core
• G7A:v.centerpoint - basic GIS functionality

Maybe, if stable enough

• G7A:v.concave.hull
• G7A:v.kriging

General strategy

... regular publication of stability releases:

7.y.x ... 7.0.x ... 7.0.1 ... 7.0.0:

• all released, see Release

Historical notes

• a releasebranch_6_4 branch has been created (for access, see here) - used to release GRASS GIS 6.4.x
• a develbranch_6 branch has been created (for access, see here) - unused since 2015
• trunk has become GRASS 7.1.svn
• branches/releasebranch_7_0 has become GRASS 7.0.svn
• ​Announcement (2008, GRASS 7 development started)
• GRASS GIS 6.3.0 has been released from the releasebranch_6_3 branch

See also

• ​https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass8Planning