[Qgis-psc] Backporting?

Wed Mar 5 01:27:47 PST 2014

Hi Guys,

This is also something weve been wondering how to handle in the last month
or so.  

We had thought it would be beneficial to have some kind of pack-porting
branch.  Ideally it would be set up in a manner where it could provide some
starting value with very little overhead (e.g. simply just containing the
fixes that could be applied in a trivial manner).  

The biggest assumptions we have are around the packaging side of things so
it would be great to learn more about this.  

I was thinking to bring this up at the next HF but perhaps the time is right
now

Kind regards,

Pete

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From: qgis-psc-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:qgis-psc-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Nathan Woodrow
Sent: 05 March 2014 09:12
To: qgis-psc
Subject: Re: [Qgis-psc] Backporting?

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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