[Qgis-developer] Four month cycle too fast

[Nathan Woodrow]

>
>
> > 6 month dev (including ~1 month freeze) -> release -> 1 month post
> release
> > freeze -> release a bug fix release if needed -> move on.
>
> 7 months is not good as that would move the schedule into undesireable
> areas
> (like holidays) over time.


I understand.  Then why not go with 4 (1 month freeze) 1 month post release
freeze.  There only adds the extra month on the end to fix anything that
might come up after that is bad.


>
> > Packaging for each platform is up to that maintainer but that should be
> > automated as much as possible really otherwise making releases is too
> hard.
>
> Um, but I've spoken to most of the debian, ubuntu, ubuntugis, windows
> maintainers and they all agree with me - I think they already have don't a
> good
> job to automated it a good deal, but it's still not fully automated and
> therefore they are not comfortable with doing it again and again.  ;)
>
>
Of course I don't want to create heaps of more work for people but if
cutting a release is a hard process then it really creates a sticky point
in all this.  We need to be able to release as easy as possible.

What are the main problems/stoppers with having it fully automated?  Do we
need resources, VMs for each platform, etc?

- Nathan


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