[QGIS-Developer] Feature freeze / exemptions

[Paolo Cavallini]

Hi Regis,
so in short your proposal is no exemption?
All the best.

Il 6 settembre 2018 18:21:29 CEST, "Régis Haubourg" <regis.haubourg at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>Hi all,
>maybe from a voter point of view, this is uncomfortable to vote for
>last
>minute exemptions, as this does not have such sense from a democratic
>perspective.
>Voting is essential on strategic issues, but voting on "do you want
>this
>now, or within 4 months" may not appear so important - except if you
>funded
>the feature yourself.
>
>As a user, I'd really want the two mentioned features for the next LTR,
>I've wanted them for so long. But in the other hand, I think we should
>really not end into a systematic feature freeze exemption process.
>
>I know QGIS is a do-ocraty, and we owe so much to our top contributors
>that
>we can't refuse them anything, hum... professionally speaking I mean:-)
>
>However having work still going on while in feature freeze does not
>help in
>dedicating fully to bugfixing and testing.
>
>Last point, some teams have been rescheduling hard and sometimes
>canceling
>deserved vacations to respect feature freeze deadline. Just to be
>clear,
>this doesn't concern Oslandia this time, but this happened in the past.
>Seen from this perspective, I'd like we don't repeat this at every
>release.
>Customer usually can wait for 4 months more.
>
>Regards,
>Régis
>
>
>Le mer. 5 sept. 2018 à 09:13, Matthias Kuhn <matthias at opengis.ch> a
>écrit :
>
>> Thanks Paolo
>>
>> On 09/05/2018 09:02 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
>> > Hi Matthias
>> >
>> >
>> > Il 09/05/2018 08:35 AM, Matthias Kuhn ha scritto:
>> >> I think the approach to let voting members decide as we did last
>time
>> >> (https://www.loomio.org/d/38Aiya0q/3-0-soft-freeze-exemptions)
>works
>> fine.
>> >>
>> >>  * This committee includes several technical members
>> >>  * Everyone is free to vote or not, based on self-evaluation of
>> knowledge
>> > it makes sense to me - perhaps this should be particularly stressed
>in
>> > the voting question, otherwise people will feel obliged to vote
>(which
>> > often means +1) even when they cannot grasp the implication.
>>
>> Yes, we can state that explicitly.
>>
>> In the past, e.g. here
>> https://www.loomio.org/p/BPc3Wj6l/duplicate-feature-redigitized we
>had
>> 33% participation. Not sure what the reason for abstaining was, one
>> assumption would be that many did not feel comfortable enough to make
>a
>> decision. Or pure lazyness or disinterest ;P
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
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