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

[Tim Sutton]

hi

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 12:31 PM, Jürgen E. Fischer <jef at norbit.de> wrote:

> Hi Andreas,
>
> On Sun, 09. Jul 2017 at 15:44:15 +0200, Andreas Neumann 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.
>
> So be it.  As already drafted for the PSC meeting last night the 2.99
> feature
> freeze was moved four weeks ahead and extended for four weeks.  So the
> feature
> freeze is now on 2017-09-15 (66 days away) and the 3.0 release on
> 2017-11-24
> (136 days away).
>
> I updated the schedule on the website accordingly (now fed from the google
> sheet) to reflect the new dates.
>
> The release release references were also rephrased a bit to make it
> clearer,
> that while the new LTR is also the latest release, the long-term package
> repositories are still updated from the previous LTR branch (rationale:
> different versions in the two repositories with a "stabler" LTR version in
> the
> ltr repository).
>

​Thanks for doing this Jürgen! We could also note that the proposed way
forward for the release schedule is to stick to a regular release schedule
of 4 monthly releases after 3.0 comes out, with 3.4 being the next LTR.

Regards

Tim​



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