[Qgis-developer] Realease and blockers

[Tim Sutton]

Hi


On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I kind of agree. I also think the one month testing phase is too short
> to properly deal with all of the bugs.
>
> Maybe a six month release cycle with 4 month development and 2 month
> testing would be more useful in the future.
>
> Furthermore, we would probably need at least one bugfix release.
>
> But I know you have discussed this back and forth ... and there is no
> single solution that fits for everyone.
>
> ---------
>
> BTW: I believe our finances would allow to again sponsor 1 week of paid
> bug fixing from the QGIS funds. Like with the past two releases. Has the
> PSC discussed this?
>
> Not yet but we can table it in our PSC meeting tonight. And yes there is
no single release cycle that will keep everyone happy. The other suggestion
we had once was to make every third (or other increment) release purely a
bug fix release. Those enterprise orientated folks could hold out for those
instead of doing incremental upgrades.

Regards

Tim


> Andreas
>
> Am 06.06.2014 09:36, schrieb Régis Haubourg:
> > BTW, the very short release cycle is really complicated for us. Deploying
> > prod version and testing new versions periods overshoot here. I'm alone
> on
> > that topic, and partial time only. Having longer release candidate
> period,
> > and a 6 months release cycle could help for me.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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