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

[Nyall Dawson]

On 14 July 2015 at 00:04, Matthias Kuhn <matthias at opengis.ch> wrote:
> 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)

I'd really like to backport c8dcf97 (critical for 2.8.3 IMO) and
a1a8d1b (nice to have for 2.8.3), but don't want to reset the
countdown now. Is there anyway around this?

Nyall