[Qgis-developer] 2.8.2?

[kimaidou]

Hi all

+ 1 for Tim's proposal, as it is more readable and predictable. Another
thing concerns me : I think many users are not in Twitter, or following the
user or dev mailing list, and can easily miss the point release
announcements. I think we could add in core a small tool which will behaves
as the plugin manager, and warn the users whenever a new version of QGIS is
available. I am not speaking of a complete (and complex) auto-update feature
 "a la Firefox", but a simple warning could be a great addition IMHO.

Regards
Michaël

2015-04-28 21:13 GMT+02:00 Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com>:

> Hi
>
>
> Personally I think we should have a system that is simple to track (for
> users, developers and our beleaguered release manager) so that would rule
> out anything that requires individual assessment of patches. I very much
> like the idea of having a month end bugfix release even if there has been
> ‘too much activity’ for a calm period. Or even simpler yet have a fixed
> monthly release if there has been any activity in that month and don’t
> worry about the quiet period. The last week of the month could be a freeze
> period for testers and QA as per Juergen’s suggestion. This all sounds a
> bit like Microsoft’s ‘patch tuesday’ :-) If there is a critical fix for
> security or a real show stopper then we do an out of band release and
> otherwise just keep to the monthly cadence.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>
>
> On 28 Apr 2015, at 16:32, Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 01:23:35PM +0200, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
>
> Hi Sandro,
>
> On Tue, 28. Apr 2015 at 11:44:15 +0200, Sandro Santilli wrote:
>
> Let's try hard to avoid backports unless very very important ?
>
> PS: I'd be in favor of reducing the silence requirement to 1 week,
>    especially for the first few bugfix releases...
>
>
> If only our largest gap was large enough to cover a week.
>
> commit 2e97ceb5c2ecc5c700cfeb42bf5bd822c7c9e91f
> Author:     Werner Macho <werner.macho at gmail.com>
> AuthorDate: Mon Mar 16 23:03:49 2015 +0100
> Commit:     Werner Macho <werner.macho at gmail.com>
> CommitDate: Mon Mar 16 23:04:51 2015 +0100
>
>    adding french translators
>
> commit 6c7eb5b35c6d3c4331832be3811a186fa53d18ad
> Author:     Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>
> AuthorDate: Tue Mar 10 22:53:23 2015 +1100
> Commit:     Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>
> CommitDate: Tue Mar 10 22:57:03 2015 +1100
>
> Add some GDAL provider unit tests...
>
> Just ~6.5 days...
>
>
> Should "adding french translators" trigger a "counter reset" ?
> Doesn't sound like a commit that could possibly introduce regressions.
> Doesn't sound like an urgent fix either that can't wait for next
> patch level release to be included. Maybe by sending out periodical
> status report we can help all authors weight urgency of a release and
> importance of a fix. What notable changes since 2.8.2 ?
>
> So that wouldn't have helped either.  Maybe we should do monthly point
> release
> with a week of no backports unless there were new bugs introduced.  That
> would
> still give a week window to test the release nightlies before there is a
> release
>
>
> How's that different from asking developers to refrain from pushing changes
> but rather focus on tests for one week ? Such request would not be a
> general
> one, but contextual to a specific case in time. Like, now, as the point was
> raised a few times already, we could ask everyone to avoid pushing more
> changes in the stable branch unless really really important. Maybe asking
> on
> the list for more opinions about the convenience of pushing them. Until
> 2.8.2 is out.
>
> --strk;
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