<div dir="ltr">+1 from me for this kind of release schedule. Knowing that there is a release coming in X months puts users minds at ease and lets devs focus on what they can do and when, and not rushing things last minute. <div>
<br></div><div>Waiting for features is just asking for the "we will just wait for this, and that, and this, and maybe this"<div><br></div><div>I think we are in a good place now to be making faster releases.</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Nathan</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Alexander Bruy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alexander.bruy@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexander.bruy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
I agree with Jürgen and Marco, fixed release schedule is better than<br>
waiting for features. Also having month for testing should be enough<br>
for finding most major bugs/regressions, so releases will be more<br>
stable and robust.<br>
<br>
<br>
2013/11/5 Jürgen E. <<a href="mailto:jef@norbit.de">jef@norbit.de</a>>:<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> Hi Paolo,<br>
><br>
> On Mon, 04. Nov 2013 at 20:01:02 +0100, Paolo Cavallini wrote:<br>
>> wouldn't it a good time to do it now then? :)<br>
><br>
> My/The plan is to have a fixed release every four months.<br>
><br>
> So if we started with the last release the next release would be in january,<br>
> then may and september and so forth.<br>
><br>
> What I didn't expect was that the 2.0 release would take this long for me -<br>
> mostly not actual QGIS problems, but stuff in OSGeo4W. So I'm still busy<br>
> catching up with my other duties and got behind with the release plan.<br>
><br>
> Anyway, the 4 months would be split into three months of development and one<br>
> month for testing, bugfixing, translating and release preparations in a freeze<br>
> period.<br>
><br>
> So if everyone knows beforehand when the next release will happen, new things<br>
> can be scheduled to be introduced into a certain release slot. Things that<br>
> take more than one slot, should go into a seperate branch and merged when they<br>
> are ready.<br>
><br>
> So the release should just be determined just by time and be not be tied to<br>
> some desireable feature set/level of improvement or some other thing that might<br>
> or might not have happened at a given point in time and delay the next release<br>
> for an unknown amount of time.<br>
><br>
> Does jan/may/sep sound preferable? feb/jun/oct or mar/jul/nov or apr/aug/dec<br>
> any better? Any preference on the week or weekday such a release should happen<br>
> (eg. 3rd friday of the month)?<br>
><br>
> The idea also was to thereby reduce the need to stable releases and not to do<br>
> any. As I originally thought, we didn't have the manpower to maintain them. As<br>
> we already established two times and I'm still doubtful that we're now.<br>
> So this doesn't cover stable releases at all.<br>
><br>
> Opinions?<br>
><br>
><br>
> Jürgen<br>
><br>
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