[Qgis-psc] Backporting?

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Paolo,

On Wed, 05. Mar 2014 at 08:55:33 +0100, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> I have seen a lot of discussion about backporting fixes for a 2.2.1
> release: did we take a decision on this? I have seen a few annoying
> issues have been promptly fixed, including
> http://hub.qgis.org/issues/9631 (we also have a fix to IT translation
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/1224), etc.
> I think the backport may be the responsibility of committers, so our
> main burden would be in packaging, right?
> In any case, the final word is for Juergen.

We (intend to) do three releases a year to avoid having to maintain and package
several branches in parallel.  Hence backporting to the old branch is somewhat
pointless as that's not going to be released and packaged.

IMHO that there are backports now only shows that QGIS wasn't tested enough
before the release.  Maybe announcing the weekly snapshots as release
candidates will help next time around.


Jürgen

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