[QGIS-Developer] QGIS 3.0 Soft Feature Freeze

[Paolo Cavallini]

Fully agreed, both with the general meaning and with the wording.
Thanks.

Il 2 gennaio 2018 23:39:17 CET, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>On 3 January 2018 at 06:51, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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….
>
>Ok, let me re-word option 2 as:
>
>"2. Carefully manage release expectations, with detailed explanations
>of known issues and regressions in the release notes. Stress in press
>releases/release notes that 3.0 is a new major release and that the
>QGIS team do not consider it a suitable replacement for the current
>stable LTR release, and that it is highly recommended that
>organisations do not replace their existing QGIS 2.x installations
>before careful in-house testing and evaluation of its suitability for
>their workplace. The next stable LTR QGIS release will be QGIS 3.2."
>
>Nyall
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