[Qgis-psc] Backporting?

[Sandro Santilli]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 12:37:53PM +0100, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:

> Most bugs are spotted by users and if we could get them somehow to test
> voluntarily before the release instead of involuntarily after it would be for
> our all good (users & devs). 

The best way to get users to test is give users something to play with.
The average user only installs binary packages.

You may call it "pre-release" instead of release, but how does that change
the fact that it still needs to be packaged in order to be pushed to the
user ?

Also, some users would refrain from testing "pre-release", no matter what
you do, but would happily (or not-so-happily-but-forced-by-OS) upgrade to
an official release.

The reality is: people use the software and find bugs, no matter how much
pre-release testing you may do.

I think the question here is how to reduce regressions while fixing bugs,
and this would be the main reason for maintaining a "stable" branch.
Being "stable" means that the least possible changes happen in that branch.
Limited scope of changes should theoretically help with NOT introducing
regressions. Should also help reviewing changes.

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