[Qgis-developer] Release plans

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Andreas,

On Thu, 26. Jun 2014 at 14:43:19 +0000, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> I have to agree with Nathan and Denis. It would me buch better to announce a
> release when the packages are ready. I remember that last time there was some
> confusion and disappointment by users reading tweets that QGIS was available
> and then they could not install it on their platform.

That was the first time - it might have come unexpected to the user.  They'll
probably get used to it.

> Sorry Jürgen that we discuss this at the very latest. I was already happy
> that we got one week more time for testing/bug fixing.
 
> At least for the next release we should have packages ready before the
> announcement. Or only inform developers about the release and then the
> regular users when the packages are ready.

Which packages?  OSGeo4W? Windows standalone? Debian? Ubuntu? Ubuntugis?
Fedora?  RHEL/CentOS/SL?  OpenSUSE, Mandriva? Slackware? ArchLinux? OSX?
FreeBSD?  Android?  All?  Some/which?  How long do we wait?

I rather get the (source) release done, get my packages done (a good share of
the above) and then get back to master...


Jürgen

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