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

[Matthias Kuhn]

On 07/11/2017 01:38 PM, Tim Sutton wrote:
> hi
>
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 12:31 PM, Jürgen E. Fischer <jef at norbit.de
> <mailto: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​
>
>  
>
>
>
>     Jürgen
>
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Cool, this makes a lot more sense to me now!

Thanks PSC and Jürgen!

Matthias