[Qgis-psc] The inevitable question: extending freeze for 3.0?

[Tim Sutton]

Hi


+1 from me too for pushing the date back as needed - I'd rather we have all
the key API changes in place since we are setting the foundation for the
next ~5 years here....

Thanks!

Regards

Tim

On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:

> +1 for pushing the feature freeze back from Mid August for at least one
> more month. End of September would be a reasonable date.
>
> I am also in favour of having more than one month for bug fixing before we
> release 3.0
>
> There are so many changes that went into the 3.x (master) branch and there
> will be more than usual bugs. So I am afraid that one month of bug fixing
> is not enough to get a reasonably stable and useful release.
>
> Andreas
>
>
>
> On 07.07.2017 14:56, Nyall Dawson wrote:
>
>> Hi PSC,
>>
>> There's a lot of major work still outstanding which would be good to
>> land in 3.0, and which is actively being worked on by developers. This
>> includes my layout work, the ongoing processing changes (although
>> these are nearly complete - more on that later), Lutra's 3d work, the
>> recently funded remaining server improvements, and Nathan's
>> configuration/profiles work (+ ideally the ongoing metadata work, if
>> someone steps up to fund the remaining work packages).
>>
>> Given that the freeze is coming up quickly, I'd like to raise the
>> discussion now about whether we could/should push this back by a
>> month.
>>
>> My personal situation is that while I should be able to complete the
>> layout work and the processing changes by the current freeze, an extra
>> month would allow me time to really make these improvements shine
>> (especially processing would benefit from an extra month to port all
>> the existing algorithms... but that's another discussion I'll raise
>> soon).
>>
>> Is this possible? A good idea? A bad idea? Desired by anyone else but me?
>>
>> Nyall
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