[Qgis-developer] Release plans

[Denis Rouzaud]

On 26.06.2014 17:02, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
> 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?
As said, I think Windows is the limiting factor.
I am not sure about Mac.
But that would be the only two.

For the rest, a "packaging...coming soon!" message will do the job!
>
> I rather get the (source) release done, get my packages done (a good share of
> the above) and then get back to master...
>
>
> Jürgen
>