[QGIS-Developer] Early 3.4 point release?

[Luigi Pirelli]

I feel that this is a really serious issue that IMHO can justify a point
release

Peter, +1 to a release candidate

Luigi Pirelli

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On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 at 08:04, Peter Petrik <
peter.petrik at lutraconsulting.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > Bah... feels like *every* major release someone ends up sending an
> email like this...
>
> My opinion this may show a problem with our development cycle setup. In my
> previous company, different closed-sourced software, we had so called code
> freeze. For example it could be 1-2 weeks before actual release and ideally
> some users would have time to test the "release-candidate" of QGIS before
> going public.
>
> From wikipedia:
>
>    - A *(complete) code freeze*, in which no changes whatsoever are
>    permitted to a portion or the entirety of the program's source code.
>    Particularly in large software systems, any change to the source code may
>    have unintended consequences
>    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_bug>, potentially
>    introducing new bugs; thus, a code freeze helps ensure that a portion of
>    the program that is known to work correctly will continue to do so. Code
>    freezes are often employed in the final stages of development, when a
>    particular release or iteration is being tested, but may also be used to
>    prevent changes to one portion of a program while another is undergoing
>    development.
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 6:32 AM Mathieu Pellerin <nirvn.asia at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> That's rather unfortunate, but most probably needed. The issue raised,
>> 20262, affects WMS(T), XYZ, WFS, etc. layers.
>>
>> On top of - and very much due to - the gravity of the bug itself, 3.4 is
>> flagged as LTR, and it'd be most appropriate to insure that people jumping
>> onto this new LTR aren't left with a bad first impression.
>>
>> Math
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 8:55 AM Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Bah... feels like every major release someone ends up sending an email
>>> like this... but in this case, https://issues.qgis.org/issues/20262
>>> has totally destroyed QGIS network based providers with Qt 5.11 and
>>> above.
>>>
>>> This is not anyone's fault -- it's an upstream change in the Qt
>>> library which changed some behavior we relied on. Not there fault, not
>>> our fault. But end result is that it makes QGIS basically unusable for
>>> any non gdal/ogr layers on Qt >= 5.11. And unfortunately our major
>>> platforms only saw an upgrade to Qt 5.11 late in the bug fixing
>>> period, which made this one slow to be identified.
>>>
>>> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/8383 should fix it.
>>>
>>> Soo.... could we break the normal cycle and get a point release out
>>> quickly? (Ideally with a couple of days prenotice so that anyone else
>>> working on urgent bug fixes could get them in too)
>>>
>>> Nyall
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