[QGIS-Developer] Feature freeze / exemptions

[Paolo Cavallini]

Hi Matthias,

Il 09/05/2018 07:13 AM, Matthias Kuhn ha scritto:
>
> Feature freeze is coming end of next week with a freeze window of 6
> weeks. In the past, we have regularly granted freeze exemptions to
> some features upon request.
>
> I think it would be good to know, what we can expect this time to
> decide on what is granted and then send them over to Loomio for review.
>
> Myself, I would like to include Geometry Validation
> (https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/131). I
> estimate will require about 1 to maximum 2 more week to get it into a
> mergeable state, which will still leave us with 4-5 weeks of bugfixing
> time for this code. One part of it is, it will revisit some of the
> geometry checker code which is corrected for threading and other
> issues, so that can already be seen as "bugfixing of existing code"
> that will land as part of it.
>
thanks for this request - this is indeed a gray area that has caused
some discomfort in the past, so it will be good to have more clear
guidelines. I think it will be difficult to carve them in stone however;
some ad hoc evaluation will be necessary.
Maybe we can ask three questions:
* should we set a hard limit for freeze (e.g. no exemption in the last X
weeks), or we can decide anytime based on the merit of the code submitted?
* whom should decide on this? I personally think core developers should
have a much heavier weight in this decision than PSC
* based on which (more or less objective) criteria? This could include
isolation of code,  i.e. likelihood that it will break other parts,
importance of the new feature for the majority of users, quality of the
code, commitment to promptly fix bugs.
All the best.

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