[QGIS-Developer] Explicit policy re bug fixing responsibilities after new features

[Paolo Cavallini]

Agreed, better make it explicit.
Thanks Nyall!

On 10 March 2020 23:55:05 CET, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 at 03:31, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>>
>> I've always felt it was an implicit agreement, but I totally agree
>> that making it explicit is a good idea.
>
>Yep, it's been more or less "understood" practice for some time, but
>I'd like it to be official so there's no room for misunderstand.
>
>> Where exactly would you suggest to add that kind of statements?
>
>I'd put it in a new section under
>https://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/developers_guide/  Maybe
>something like "development policies"?
>
>We could word it something like:
>
>"While new feature submissions are always highly appreciated, every
>feature added to QGIS comes with an associated maintenance burden for
>the project. Accordingly, some policies exist to avoid placing this
>burden on the existing QGIS development team:
>- Following any new feature development, it is the original
>developer's (or organisations) SOLE responsibility to proactively
>monitor and implement bug fixes relating to the new feature (or
>regressions to other parts of QGIS which have resulted from its
>development). This extends up to the next major QGIS release following
>the feature being merged*. It is NOT acceptable to use QGIS.org
>sponsored bug fixing efforts to implement these fixes. Failure to
>provide fixes to all reasonable bug reports raised for a
>new feature may lead to that feature being reverted prior to release.
>- After this major release, the developer is still expected to monitor
>the bug tracker for issues relating to their work and implement
>reasonable fixes at their own expense.
>"
>
>Nyall
>
>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Alessandro Pasotti
>> w3:   www.itopen.it
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