[Qgis-developer] Roadmap for 2.2

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Paolo,

On Mon, 04. Nov 2013 at 20:01:02 +0100, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> wouldn't it a good time to do it now then? :)

My/The plan is to have a fixed release every four months.

So if we started with the last release the next release would be in january,
then may and september and so forth.

What I didn't expect was that the 2.0 release would take this long for me -
mostly not actual QGIS problems, but stuff in OSGeo4W.   So I'm still busy
catching up with my other duties and got behind with the release plan.

Anyway, the 4 months would be split into three months of development and one
month for testing, bugfixing, translating and release preparations in a freeze
period.

So if everyone knows beforehand when the next release will happen, new things
can be scheduled to be introduced into a certain release slot.  Things that
take more than one slot, should go into a seperate branch and merged when they
are ready.

So the release should just be determined just by time and be not be tied to
some desireable feature set/level of improvement or some other thing that might
or might not have happened at a given point in time and delay the next release
for an unknown amount of time.

Does jan/may/sep sound preferable?  feb/jun/oct or mar/jul/nov or apr/aug/dec
any better?  Any preference on the week or weekday such a release should happen
(eg. 3rd friday of the month)?

The idea also was to thereby reduce the need to stable releases and not to do
any. As I originally thought, we didn't have the manpower to maintain them.  As
we already established two times and I'm still doubtful that we're now.
So this doesn't cover stable releases at all.

Opinions?


Jürgen

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