<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Andreas,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for raising this issue.</div><div><br></div><div>From our experience with various large organizations, they generally skip most of the minor releases. But for those who fund a specific bug fix, they will immediately upgrade to the latest LTR as soon as the fix appears in the release.</div><div>So, having the current regular releases of LTR suits both sets of users. The LTR releases can be skipped for most organisations but also crucial for those who pay to fix a bug in QGIS master and get backported to LTR.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards</div><div>Saber</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 1 Mar 2023 at 10:24, Andreas Neumann via QGIS-Developer <<a href="mailto:qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">
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<p>Like that other decision - that was a bit hard to find (you helped me find it in QEP 239) - I don't know exactly where the quarantine rule originated. I am pretty sure there was discussion.</p>
<p>Nyall: can you please share some background when and why it was introduced and if this decision can be found in some QEP or PSC decision?</p>
<p>Note that I am not questioning the quarantine rule - I think it makes sense - but I want to discuss the combination of the quarantine rule with the thinned out release cycle - and how we can improve things in this respect.</p>
<p>Thank you all for the discussion,</p>
<p>Andreas</p>
<p id="m_1258005242229146527reply-intro">On 2023-03-01 10:16, Jürgen E. Fischer via QGIS-Developer wrote:</p>
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<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:monospace">Hi Andreas,<br><br>On Tue, 28. Feb 2023 at 08:55:49 +0100, Andreas Neumann via QGIS-Developer wrote:
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding:0px 0.4em;border-left:2px solid rgb(16,16,255);margin:0px">However, the situation is, that there is also a "quarantine rule" - which<br>is not mentioned in QEP 239 - but it helps to prevent untested patches to<br>end up in LTR versions, by delaying the backports until the backport was<br>first tested in the non-LTR stable release.</blockquote>
<br>Where is that quarantine rule? Is it tied into the backport bot?<br><br>In the good old days I'd apply my fixes to master also to the release branches,<br>once the showed to work in master and didn't produce additional complains from<br>users of the nightlies. And that ideally not shortly before the release so<br>people could still try the release nightlies.<br><br><br>Jürgen</div>
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