Release Schedule

The scope is to release new GRASS GIS versions at a more regular schedule.

THIS IS A DRAFT OPEN FOR DISCUSSION

Suggestions

Scenario 1

Release	Planned date	Remarks	GitHub milestone	Important external releases
7.8.3	May 2020		​GH 7.8.3	May 2020: GDAL 3.1.0
7.6.2	May 2020	last release, EOL		June 2020: QGIS 3.14.0
7.8.4	Sep 2020
7.10.0	Nov 2020	forked from master
7.8.5	Jan 2021
7.10.1	Mar 2021
7.8.6	May 2021	last release, EOL
7.10.2	Jul 2021
7.10.3	Nov 2021
8.0.0	Dec 2021	forked from master

Scenario 2

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Scenario 3

Version	Date	Comment
7.8.3	May 2020	Call it a real LTS
7.8.4	Sep 2020
7.8.5	Jan 2021
7.8.6	May 2021
7.8.7	Sep 2021	Still with Python 2
8.0.0	Oct 2020	Release for early adopters
8.0.1	Dec 2020	Just minor fixes
8.2.0	Mar 2021	Still for early adopters
8.2.1	May 2021	Just minor fixes
8.4.0	Oct 2021	First 8 for everyone

External release schedules

• GDAL: ​https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/milestones
• PROJ: ​https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/milestones?direction=asc&sort=due_date&state=open
• OSGeoLive: ​https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki/Release%20Schedule
• QGIS: ​https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/development/roadmap.html#release-schedule
• R has the Easter release schedule for major releases, e.g. ​https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/old/

GRASS GIS versions in the various Linux distros

• Comparison: ​https://repology.org/project/grass/versions