[QGIS-Developer] Early 3.4 point release?

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Matthias,

On Wed, 31. Oct 2018 at 11:22:40 +0100, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
> I like the concept of a "release candidate".
 
> I think by labeling a package as RC we will encourage people to

I doubt that two letters will be a gamechanger.


> Either we call the LTR x.y.0 version a RC (instead of the first release)
> - or the 4 last weeklies before the release are labeled as RC.

Not very prominent, but that's already there:
"In the feature freeze phase that [the weekly snapshot] also acts as release
candidate."


> But still then there will be issues and most people will only start
> testing the final release and we will run into "unknown issues" and
> "unreported issues" while working on QGIS and fix and push them without
> a big admin overhead. And we just have to accept that this is our life
> as software engineers and we all do the best we can :-)

Sounds like the best option - other options probably end up with the same
result just with more effort ;)

And to me only people that tested the nightly before the release are allowed to
complain about preexisting bugs right after the release.  If you can jump on
the released packages right away, you should have also been able to do so with
a nightly earlier.  But this time they might even have done that and the
problem was introduced by upgrading Qt late.

So where are we with fixing the urgent bugs?   EPR next friday 12:00 UTC?

Next regular PR would be 2018-11-23 12:00:00 UTC


Jürgen

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