[Qgis-developer] 1.1 and 1.0.1 Release plans & feature freeze

[Otto Dassau]

Hi, 

from the documentation side we had a meeting yesterday and decided that we want
to follow the unstable QGIS releases (1.1, 1.2 ...) with unstable doc releases.
At the hackfest we were thinking about a way how documenter can easily find out
in SVN what is new and should go into the documentation. 

One idea, that I prefere and seems to be simple, is that developers indicate
with a short SVN commit comment, such as [MANUAL] or sth. else, if something is
added, update or enhancement that should be mentioned in the manual. Then we
can grep it from svn and know where to search for the new feature or feature
update/enhancement. 

Please tell us, if you agree with this procedure and maybe Tim can add some
notes to the CODING guide then. It would save us a lot of time! For features
that are already committed to trunk for the 1.1 release, it would be great if
you send a short comment to the community list, so we don't miss it.

BTW: I hope we can establish this as a general arrangement, because also for the
stable 1.0.x versions, I think it would make sense to add the SVN commit comment
[MANUAL], if it is a feature update/enhancement that should go into the manual.

Any other ideas are welcome. 

regards,
 Otto


On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:37:45 +0200
Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com> wrote:

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> Hi all
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> QGIS 1.0.1 Release Plans:
> - ------------------------
> 
> Some of you may already have 1.0.1 down as a distant memory, even though
> it still hasnt been formally announced yet. This is by design rather
> than ommission as I want to have a Windows build all in one installer to
> accompany it. One of the major pieces of feedback I got with the 1.0.0
> build is that people really missed the all in one standalone installer.
> 
> Since several of us now have QGIS building under MSVC, and I have the
> nsis packager Marco did working with the MSVC built QGIS, we are on the
> home strait to having an all in on installer ready over the next week or
> so -  at which point I will put the package online and announce the release.
> 
> I will give 1.0.2 a month or so for additional bugfixes to come in (dont
> forget to patch your changes into the stable branch where appropriate).
> 
> QGIS 1.1 Release Plans:
> - ------------------------
> 
> I would like to request that we feature freeze one week from today
> (Thursday 9 April).
> 
> Following that we will have a two week period for stabilisation and
> translations with code freeze and creation of 1.1 branch on 23 April.
> 
> Following the branch creation, I will put out a call for packaging with
> the aim of making release announcements around 4 May 2009.
> 
> Please let me know if there are any problems with these timings. I will
> be updating the 1.1 release checklist over the weekend and will post a
> link then.
> 
> 
> Lots of nifty new things to look forward to in 1.1....so take the chance
> of this week to get your cool new features in!
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
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