[Qgis-psc] feature freeze with 54 pull requests !!!

[Nyall Dawson]

On 17 Jan 2016 1:04 AM, "Richard Duivenvoorde" <richard at duif.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Marco, PSC,
>
> on the dev list Alexandre is asking to pull his icons (PR #2630), BUT
> feature freeze already began.
>
> Currently (see https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pulls) there are 54 open
> pull requests?!
>
> We as community should try to cleanup the list and make it shorter, say
> at least 2 weeks, before a feature freeze.

Don't forget that no-one is paid for reviewing PRs, so it's all volunteer
time contributed by devs/their employers. It's a big call to say we should
work harder on this ;)

Some things to note:

- we've had a TON of PRs this cycle. Development has been very active and I
actually don't think I've ever seen so much activity in the git list.
Despite this, we still managed to review, fix and merge  a huge number of
requests (special credit to Matthias for his phenomenal effort) during the
cycle and pre-freeze.
- quite a lot of the PRs are fixes, not features, so they were
de-prioritised till after freeze.

Nyall

>
> @Marco: are you still able to handle this, or should we appoint 1 or 2
> assisting devs from outside psc to handle PR's? I'm really afraid we
> loose credits from people like Alexandre who took quite some discussion
> hurdles and time to create a PR and then being ignored before a new QGIS
> version.
>
> @Juergen: I think part of the freeze/release process we as PSC maybe
> should sent an email to all devs/PR-builders to tell them that we are
> going to go in feature freeze within x days, and IF you want your PR in,
> that you have to put some marketing/energy in it if you want it to land
> into that version x...
>
> Off course, like always: "just do it" :-)
> I'll try to keep an eye on the feature freeze better and sent this email
> (but feel free to remind me if I forget).
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Duivenvoorde
>
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