[QGIS-Developer] Gentle request: please be careful with 2.18 backports

[Alessandro Pasotti]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 12:20 AM, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> This is a gentle request to please please pay very special attention
> when backporting fixes to 2.18, and assess carefully whether those
> fixes are REALLY necessary in the stable LTR branch. Unfortunately the
> last couple of 2.18 patch releases have seen some serious regressions
> introduced as a result of backported fixes, which really harms the
> reputation of QGIS' stability.
>
> It's no-ones fault, because we ALL make mistakes and create
> regressions... but I think at this stage we should tighten up 2.18 now
> to only mission critical, very clearly safe bug fixes, and leave all
> "minor" fixes for 3.x only.
>
> (Possibly we should consider switching on github branch protection
> here, blocking direct commits and requiring a minimum of 2 or 3
> 'acceptable' reviews from core devs on PRs?)
>
> Nyall
>


+1

As a side note, I believe we should try to involve more community members
(I mean users: not developers) in regularly testing development builds
between feature freeze and release.


-- 
Alessandro Pasotti
w3:   www.itopen.it
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