[Qgis-psc] Backporting?

[Radim Blazek]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:

> Hi All
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>wrote:
>
>> Hi all.
>> I have seen a lot of discussion about backporting fixes for a 2.2.1
>> release: did we take a decision on this? I have seen a few annoying
>> issues have been promptly fixed, including
>> http://hub.qgis.org/issues/9631 (we also have a fix to IT translation
>> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/1224), etc.
>> I think the backport may be the responsibility of committers, so our
>> main burden would be in packaging, right?
>> In any case, the final word is for Juergen.
>>
>
> In my opinion the time is ripe for us to do this. My suggestion is that we
> use part of our finances to cover the paying for the packaging work (i.e.
> Juergen) and solicit more funding from sponsors who want to see stable
> builds getting bugfixes applied but no new features. My recollection is
> that this is in part what the agreement with AAS was anyway and as more and
> more people are using QGIS for 'serious work' we should support this
> officially through QGIS and not reply on third party vendors to do this. It
> does raise some questions - like which versions do we backport to etc. I
> think to start with if we just backport fixes to the current latest release
> it would be a good measure.
>

+1 for fixes backporting to previous version

Radim


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> Tim
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