[Qgis-developer] Release management and ticket handling (was: Feature freeze commencing the ides of March)

[Paolo Cavallini]

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Il 11/03/2013 14:58, Matthias Kuhn ha scritto:

> I'm not sure what the best way is to keep new features coming but
> at the same time guarantee for stability.

I think the suggestion by Paolo Corti, to use the GeoNode way of using
git branches, is a very good solution to this.

> One thing, while not directly connected to release schedules, is
> the way, issue reports work. We've got now close to 2000 open
> issues. More than anyone could handle. I think we need to shoot
> down some of the non-issues to allow the real bugs to gain some
> attention. And then keep the issue count down by e.g. automatically
> closing issues being in "Feedback" status for more than 2 weeks.

IMHO we should be very careful before closing tickets. To focus on the
most relevant ones, I think the current approach (using priorities) is
reasonable.
All the best.
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Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia
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