[Qgis-developer] Release plans

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Nathan,

On Thu, 26. Jun 2014 at 21:22:54 +1000, Nathan Woodrow wrote:
> 1) Are we planning on having packages ready to go before the official
> announcement?

No. Just like with 2.2.


> 2) Is the website going to be updated before/just after the announcement to
>    point to the packages?

When the package arrive the website is going to be updated.  Where necessary,
not all links have an explicit version number in them.  And we should probably
also get rid of those that do - so we don't need to change that just because
the current release version number changed.


> 3) Are we holding the feature freeze for a month/two weeks after release in
>    case something comes up that is a real hurt point to hold off on?

No.  Once the release is branched and tagged, master is open for new features
again.  Just like with 2.2.   Fixes can be applied to the release branch -
although there still isn't an official plan if/when/how such updates would end
up in packages.


> If 2.4 "release" on the 27 is going to be just a email to call for packages,
> could it be just labeled as such, don't use the words "Release", or "QGIS 2.4
> is out" because it will go everywhere raising the issues in 1).

No, just like with 2.2

http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/2014-February/026281.html

and as on the roadmap:

http://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/development/index.html#road-map 


Jürgen 

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