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

[Nyall Dawson]

On 30 Jul 2015 8:44 am, "Sandro Santilli" <strk at keybit.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 08:09:49PM +1000, Nyall Dawson wrote:
> > 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?
>
> I noticed 2.8.3 was tagged on July 28, as anticipated,
> but did not see any announcement mail.
> Is that waiting for some form of packaging ?
>
> Also, were those two commits backported ?
> There's no trace of those hashes in the history of 2.8 branch.

They were both backported to 2.8.3 (thanks Jürgen!). I assume the release
announcement is waiting on the packages being built and available for the
major platforms.

On a semi-related theme, we really need a core "QGIS update available"
plugin. I suspect there's a ton of users still on 2.8.0/.1/<2.8 just due to
not knowing there's a new version out. This could also be really handy for
tracking stats of users...

Nyall
>
> --strk;
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