[Qgis-psc] Backporting?

[Nathan Woodrow]

Jurgen,

What is the steps involved in a release?

IMO it should not be hard for us to roll a release out, bug fix branch or
not.

- Nathan
On 05/03/2014 7:02 pm, "Jürgen E." <jef at norbit.de> wrote:

> 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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