[QGIS-Developer] Feature freeze / exemptions

[Régis Haubourg]

Well, my point is that in exceptional cases, that could be of course
discussed, but not at every release.
Régis

Le jeu. 6 sept. 2018 à 18:38, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> a
écrit :

> 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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>>
> --
> Sorry for being short
>
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