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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Guys,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This is also something we’ve been wondering how to handle in the last month or so. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The biggest assumptions we have are around the packaging side of things so it would be great to learn more about this. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I was thinking to bring this up at the next HF but perhaps the time is right now… <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Kind regards,<br><br>Pete<br><br><br><br><b>Peter Wells</b><br><br><b>Lutra Consulting</b><br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:gray'>23 Chestnut Close, Burgess Hill, RH15 8HN</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br><a href="http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk" target="_blank" title="This external link will open in a new window">www.lutraconsulting.co.uk</a><br>Tel: +44 (0)1444 848012<br>Mob: +44 (0)7704 781683<br>SIP: 1507403@sipgate.co.uk<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> qgis-psc-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-psc-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Nathan Woodrow<br><b>Sent:</b> 05 March 2014 09:12<br><b>To:</b> qgis-psc<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Qgis-psc] Backporting?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p>Jurgen,<o:p></o:p></p><p>What is the steps involved in a release?<o:p></o:p></p><p>IMO it should not be hard for us to roll a release out, bug fix branch or not. <o:p></o:p></p><p>- Nathan<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 05/03/2014 7:02 pm, "Jürgen E." <<a href="mailto:jef@norbit.de">jef@norbit.de</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Paolo,<br><br>On Wed, 05. Mar 2014 at 08:55:33 +0100, Paolo Cavallini wrote:<br>> I have seen a lot of discussion about backporting fixes for a 2.2.1<br>> release: did we take a decision on this? I have seen a few annoying<br>> issues have been promptly fixed, including<br>> <a href="http://hub.qgis.org/issues/9631" target="_blank">http://hub.qgis.org/issues/9631</a> (we also have a fix to IT translation<br>> <a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/1224" target="_blank">https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/1224</a>), etc.<br>> I think the backport may be the responsibility of committers, so our<br>> main burden would be in packaging, right?<br>> In any case, the final word is for Juergen.<br><br>We (intend to) do three releases a year to avoid having to maintain and package<br>several branches in parallel. Hence backporting to the old branch is somewhat<br>pointless as that's not going to be released and packaged.<br><br>IMHO that there are backports now only shows that QGIS wasn't tested enough<br>before the release. Maybe announcing the weekly snapshots as release<br>candidates will help next time around.<br><br><br>Jürgen<br><br>--<br>Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. +49-4931-918175-31<br>Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rheinstraße 13 Fax. +49-4931-918175-50<br>Software Engineer D-26506 Norden <a href="http://www.norbit.de" target="_blank">http://www.norbit.de</a><br>QGIS PSC member (RM) Germany IRC: jef on FreeNode<br><br>--<br>norBIT Gesellschaft fuer Unternehmensberatung und Informationssysteme mbH<br>Rheinstrasse 13, 26506 Norden<br>GF: Jelto Buurman, HR: Amtsgericht Emden, HRB 5502<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Qgis-psc mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org">Qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-psc" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-psc</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div>
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