[QGIS-Developer] QGIS 3.0 beta

[Wondimagegn Tesfaye]

Dear Mattias,

Thank you for the hard work! This is a good approach. Starting to testing
the beta before the feature freeze is good to incorporate more feedback
from the users and developers.

Regards,
Wondimagegn

On Jul 8, 2017 11:13, "Matthias Kuhn" <matthias at opengis.ch> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Not too far away we will enter feature freeze for QGIS 3.0 and will be
> trying to polish the next release as much as possible.
>
> During this time, a lot of testing will need to be done in order to be
> able to best spend the bugfixing time. There are a handful of people who
> regularly test nightlies and report bugs (thanks!).
>
> I wonder if it's possible to attract more testers for the next release
> by providing a "beta".
>
> I think releasing a version labelled "beta" at the beginning of the
> feature freeze (and another one half way through) will make more people
> aware of the upcoming release. This can lead to additional important
> testing from audience which otherwise would only "test" the final
> release (with a lower acceptance of bugs). Besides that, I think it will
> also be a good signal for devs to start porting plugin code and a very
> good preparation for end users marketing-wise.
>
> It will be best served with a blog post explaining how critical the
> bugfixing phase is for a release and how resources for this are allocated.
>
> It's just an idea I had in mind for some time. Does anyone dislike it?
>
> Thanks
> Matthias
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