[QGIS-Developer] QGIS 3.0 Soft Feature Freeze

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

> On 02 Jan 2018, at 12:16, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 2 January 2018 at 19:54, Mathieu Pellerin <nirvn.asia at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> +1 to set a release date for the last week of January. That'll give us 2 weeks of freeze period (assuming the vote turns out not to extend the soft freeze) which can be used to focus on fixes only. The soft freeze period saw a nice set of fixes too, which was nice.
>> 
> 
> I'm in favour of hard freezing this time (assuming we can get those
> last couple of PRs reviewed quickly and merged).
> 
> But I'm against setting a hard deadline for the final release yet.
> That said truth is that IMO 3.0 still feels very buggy, and there's
> lots of open high priority regressions against it. I think we've got
> two options:
> 
> 1. Move to a regular "are we ready for final release?" vote
> 
> or
> 
> 2. Just decide that 3.0.0 will have bugs, and that we should "release
> early, release often" and hope that we stabilise things quickly for
> 3.0.1/3.0.2/…


I think on balance I prefer option #2 as it will get more people using QGIS 3 - we must just be careful to tell people that it is ‘next-gen’ and that the LTR is still 2.18….

Regards

Tim

> 
> Nyall
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