<div dir="ltr">Hi,<br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Filipe Dias <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:filipesdias@gmail.com" target="_blank">filipesdias@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div>How
about making a formal announcement (mailing list, website, wiki etc)
telling <br>the users that QGIS version 2.X is in feature freeze and
therefore is sufficiently <br></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">stable to be tested by end users? This may
increase the number of testers.<br><div> </div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div>As an end user that uses QGIS for production, this is the only time I work with QGIS Master. <br>
</div></div></blockquote><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Jürgen E. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jef@norbit.de" target="_blank">jef@norbit.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><div>-- 8<--snip---- <br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Ok, seriously, I should probably emphasize in the freeze announcement, that<br>
it's mainly the users that are supposed to test the daily prereleases and<br>
weekly release candidates and report problems, while the developers work on<br>
reproducing and fixing already known or newly reported bugs.<br>
<br>
And the warnings on the download page should be changed to say, that testing<br>
nightly builds in the development phase are different thing than the daily<br>
prereleases in the freeze phase.<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I think those two posts really do sum it up. The project just needs to communicate better with the user community that the weeks between the feature freeze and release are their chance to make a difference, by testing the 'release candidate' (or whatever it going to be called), or be prepared to wait 4 months.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">+1 I'm all for these changes. I don't think the idea I proposed in the original post is any better, excepting the inclusion of a larger user base, which still doesn't mean better testing, though.<br>
<br>If the majority of users 'know' that they have several weeks every 4 months to directly affect change/bugs right before a release, that should be good enough.<br><br>Also, would be good to list that right on the Roadmap schedule [0], e.g.:<br>
<br>WEEK DATE EVENT<br>21 23.0 2.3 freeze begins, release candidate<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div><br>[0] <a href="http://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/development/index.html#road-map">http://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/development/index.html#road-map</a><br>
</div><div><br><br></div><div>Regards,<br></div><div><br>Larry</div>
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