[Qgis-developer] Freeze on release-2_8 branch

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Matthias,

On Mon, 13. Jul 2015 at 13:44:49 +0200, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
> On 07/13/2015 01:23 PM, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
> > On Mon, 13. Jul 2015 at 12:46:50 +0200, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
> >> I think it would be great to branch a release-candidate-2_8_3 (no
> >> binaries released, just to backport possible issues identified on the
> >> release-2_8 binaries, related to pre-rc-commits). This way people can
> >> happily continue to backport stuff.
> > What's the point if there are no binaries?  Testing is done not intensive
> > enough even with binaries - w/o binaries it's likely to be even worse.
> That our release manager does not need to create yet another set of
> binaries. And I am confident, that a bug introduced with a
> pre-release-candidate commit will also be identified on the binaries
> produced for the release-branch with a couple of unrelated commits on top.
 
> >> Until this happens (and mainly for the situation where it does not happen)
> >> *I would like to ask all committers to stop backporting to the
> >> release-2_8 branch* as of tomorrow, July 14, 2015 (so you have still
> >> today to push the urgent fixes you never got round to merge).
> >> This way we'll have a stable 2.8.3 in the beginning of August.
> > That's can be done without a separate branch - and w/o a separate branch there
> > would be nightlies to test...

> That's why I proposed that one in bold :)

I still don't get the purpose of the release-candidate-2_8_3 branch.

I'd say we declare a backport freeze now and only apply stuff introduced by
backports in release-2_8 until we do a point release after two weeks.  After
that backporting can continue.


> > My concern is more when https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/2197 is going to
> > be resolved - as that is what 2.10.1 is waiting for.
 
> There are still 24 hours to merge it and follow the proposed schedule.



Jürgen

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