[Qgis-developer] Roadmap for 2.2

[Marco Hugentobler]

Hi Jürgen

Sounds good to have a fixed release schedule instead of waiting for 
features ( that might eventually come ).
Things are more predictable with a fixed schedule. Additionally, with 
releases every four months, it's not too bad if a feature needs to wait 
until next release.

Regards,
Marco

On 05.11.2013 11:23, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
> Hi Paolo,
>
> On Mon, 04. Nov 2013 at 20:01:02 +0100, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
>> wouldn't it a good time to do it now then? :)
> My/The plan is to have a fixed release every four months.
>
> So if we started with the last release the next release would be in january,
> then may and september and so forth.
>
> What I didn't expect was that the 2.0 release would take this long for me -
> mostly not actual QGIS problems, but stuff in OSGeo4W.   So I'm still busy
> catching up with my other duties and got behind with the release plan.
>
> Anyway, the 4 months would be split into three months of development and one
> month for testing, bugfixing, translating and release preparations in a freeze
> period.
>
> So if everyone knows beforehand when the next release will happen, new things
> can be scheduled to be introduced into a certain release slot.  Things that
> take more than one slot, should go into a seperate branch and merged when they
> are ready.
>
> So the release should just be determined just by time and be not be tied to
> some desireable feature set/level of improvement or some other thing that might
> or might not have happened at a given point in time and delay the next release
> for an unknown amount of time.
>
> Does jan/may/sep sound preferable?  feb/jun/oct or mar/jul/nov or apr/aug/dec
> any better?  Any preference on the week or weekday such a release should happen
> (eg. 3rd friday of the month)?
>
> The idea also was to thereby reduce the need to stable releases and not to do
> any. As I originally thought, we didn't have the manpower to maintain them.  As
> we already established two times and I'm still doubtful that we're now.
> So this doesn't cover stable releases at all.
>
> Opinions?
>
>
> Jürgen
>


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