[QGIS-Developer] Where do we sit with respect to release?

[Mathieu Pellerin]

> Also for the bug fixing, lets give it a full month

If the project settled on Feb. 8, can we have an official acknowledgement
on this? Maybe a simple mail to the dev list stating "QGIS 3.0 will be
released on Feb. 8, 2018".

Thanks,

Math


On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 5:18 PM, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:

> Hi Régis
>
> We have discussed beta versions many times through the years and consensus
> is always not to make a beta. We have nightly builds and an overloaded
> release manager, lets keep things simple and follow regular procedures as
> much as possible.
>
> We discussed this (conveying to our users that the 3.0.0 may not be the
> most stable software on the planet) last night at the PSC meeting and our
> recommendation is that we will tweak the splash to include a message that
> this is an early version with a lot of big changes, use only after testing
> (Anita will come up with better wording). In a subsequent bug fix release
> (e.g. 3.0.x) we can remove that message from the splash. We felt this was
> the highest visibility way to message this to our users on all platforms
> regardless of the installation mode.
>
> Also for the bug fixing, lets give it a full month - there are a lot of
> other things that need to happen - like giving plugin authors time to port
> their work now that the API is fixed, getting the release visual changelog
> written, fixing bugs, packing for Mac etc.
>
> I’d also like to suggest that we move to using loomio more when an
> unequivocal decision is needed on these things so that we can all be clear
> on what was decided.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>
> On 09 Jan 2018, at 11:37, Régis Haubourg <regis.haubourg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> @Bernd, I don't want to open any can of worm :) . Reading again the
> discussion where you ask for it, I realize that no decision was taken on
> that BETA branding.
>
> @Borys, thanks for the pointer. I'll see if Paul is available to merge
> that.
>
> Régis
>
> 2018-01-09 10:03 GMT+01:00 Borys Jurgiel <lists at borysjurgiel.pl>:
>
>> On wtorek, 9 stycznia 2018 08:55:22 CET Régis Haubourg wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> > given the small impacts and the benefit of emptying the PR queue, can
>> we go
>> > for a merge of https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/5663 (named
>> transactions
>> > in executeSQL)?
>> > I know we voted to not add it in the freeze exemptions, but that was in
>> the
>> > target of keeping a release date in end 2017. Now that time is passing,
>> and
>> > the hypothesis of a QGIS 3.0 "beta" being advertised, I think we should
>> > have it in the release.
>>
>> A small correction: we definitely voted to add it (11:2), just Paul was
>> opposed.
>>
>> https://www.loomio.org/p/EnrX0paG/-5663-add-a-name-for-trans
>> actions-created-from-executesql
>>
>> Regards,
>> Borys
>>
>
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