[QGIS-Developer] Re-discussing the QGIS release schedule - in combination with the quarantine rule for LTR versions

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi,

Like that other decision - that was a bit hard to find (you helped me 
find it in QEP 239) - I don't know exactly where the quarantine rule 
originated. I am pretty sure there was discussion.

Nyall: can you please share some background when and why it was 
introduced and if this decision can be found in some QEP or PSC 
decision?

Note that I am not questioning the quarantine rule - I think it makes 
sense - but I want to discuss the combination of the quarantine rule 
with the thinned out release cycle - and how we can improve things in 
this respect.

Thank you all for the discussion,

Andreas

On 2023-03-01 10:16, Jürgen E. Fischer via QGIS-Developer wrote:

> Hi Andreas,
> 
> On Tue, 28. Feb 2023 at 08:55:49 +0100, Andreas Neumann via 
> QGIS-Developer wrote:
> 
>> However, the situation is, that there is also a "quarantine rule" - 
>> which
>> is not mentioned in QEP 239 - but it helps to prevent untested patches 
>> to
>> end up in LTR versions, by delaying the backports until the backport 
>> was
>> first tested in the non-LTR stable release.
> 
> Where is that quarantine rule?  Is it tied into the backport bot?
> 
> In the good old days I'd apply my fixes to master also to the release 
> branches,
> once the showed to work in master and didn't produce additional 
> complains from
> users of the nightlies.  And that ideally not shortly before the 
> release so
> people could still try the release nightlies.
> 
> Jürgen
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