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

[C Hamilton]

We only update our LTR at most every 6 months and for some they are still
using quite old versions. The only reason we might want something updated
sooner would be if there were a bug that someone had encountered.

Regards,
Calvin

On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 9:47 AM Saber Razmjooei via QGIS-Developer <
qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hi Andreas,
>
> Thanks for raising this issue.
>
> From our experience with various large organizations, they generally skip
> most of the minor releases. But for those who fund a specific bug fix, they
> will immediately upgrade to the latest LTR as soon as the fix appears in
> the release.
> So, having the current regular releases of LTR suits both sets of users.
> The LTR releases can be skipped for most organisations but also crucial for
> those who pay to fix a bug in QGIS master and get backported to LTR.
>
> Kind regards
> Saber
>
> On Wed, 1 Mar 2023 at 10:24, Andreas Neumann via QGIS-Developer <
> qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>> 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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