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

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hi

> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 03:44:28PM +0200, Sandro Santilli wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 03:30:38PM +0200, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
>>> Regarding this, I would propose to put the freeze in place as of
>>>
>>> Tue, Jul 14, 12:00 UTC
>>> And - presuming there are no regressions found - 2.8.3 will be tagged on
>>> Tue, Jul, 28.
>> +1, but I'd avoid the word "freeze" as it may be confusing.
>>
>> We're basically asking all developers to refrain from pushing more
>> backports in that branch until 2.8.3 is released.
> Oh, forgot to mention, we're also asking developers to _test_
> the branch, or it would make no sense to wait another week, right ?
> It might actually help to make an official call for testing on the
> users list too. I'm sure many will be happy to test the next stable
> release before it comes out (either from snapshot or directly from
> git). I've submitted by "make Experimental" already.
>
> --strk;
+1 I planned to send a tweet tomorrow but any widespread call for
testing will be good (but mainly by power users and organizations who
actually use it. We cannot put that also on the developers back)

Matthias

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