[QGIS-Developer] Soft freeze for QGIS 3.0

[Nathan Woodrow]

Hey Tim,

If I can get the first run Welcome Screen to intro QGIS 3 ready soon do you
think I can sneak that one in.  No API changes mainly just a bit of nice UX
for first run when we release.

Not a major issue if no.

Regards,
Nathan

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:

> Hi All
>
> As discussed earlier, we raised the issue of when and how to freeze at the
> PSC meeting. We tried to take on board your various comments and came out
> with this recommendation:
>
> • The current master branch will be in ‘soft freeze’ with a list of
> allowed PR’s / Future PR’s related to these features:
> • Datum transform handling (https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/5535)
> • SAGA Support (https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/5155)
> • GRASS Support (https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/5426)
> • Metadata write support to file system (https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/
> pull/5379)
> • UI Widgets for drag forms (https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/5467)
> * Composer refactor ( https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/5486 to drop
> bindings and new PR to come for composer refactor).
>
> Please let us know if there were other ‘must merge’ features that were
> discussed but that I missed in the list above.
>
> • We will hold a rolling vote put to core developer (on loomio.org) every
> two weeks (starting two weeks from now) with a simple question “shall we
> freeze”? Once we have quorum on that vote, we go ahead and freeze and
> Jürgen can pretty much ignore 3.x in his release planning until that vote
> passes.
> • The paid bug fixing should commence now already regardless of when the
> freeze will actually happen.
>
>
> To address specifically Mathieu’s concerns about an unspecified date in
> the future, we do not anticipate an endless feature frenzy - the ‘soft
> freeze’ should keep the timelines reasonable while still giving us a chance
> to make sure that they API changes get a chance to land.
>
>
> I hope that woks for the majority of you. If you want o make the release
> come faster, help by reviewing code in PR’s, testing new features and
> generally pointing the QGIS car towards the finish line!
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
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> Tim Sutton
> QGIS Project Steering Committee Chair
> tim at qgis.org
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