[Qgis-psc] QGIS 2.18 bug fixing effort

[Paolo Cavallini]

Il 23/05/2017 10:25, Nyall Dawson ha scritto:
> On 23 May 2017 at 18:11, Jürgen E. Fischer <jef at norbit.de> wrote:
>> Hi Paolo,
>>
>> On Tue, 23. May 2017 at 09:13:23 +0200, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> 
>>> Is there a serious lack of tests in this area to prevent these problems to go
>>> unnoticed?
>>
>> People should test the nightlies - esp. before releases - and not wait for the
>> new release.
> 
> +1
> 
>> Anyway, that wouldn't have helped in this case either as the offensive fix was
>> backported on release day.
>>
> 
> On this note, I'd like to float the idea of some "thaw" time (say a
> week) from when a release is tagged before we actually finalise the
> release. I realise this adds administrative burden (mostly to Jürgen,
> sorry) and I'd welcome suggestions on how we could avoid this. But in
> general I think some short delay between when we consider a release is
> ready and when it actually becomes packaged and available would give
> time for testing the final pre-release candidate before the release is
> made.
> 
> Regardless of how extensive our test suite becomes, there'll always be
> the opportunity for bugs like this to slip in unnoticed. I can't think
> of any other alternative approach besides this proposed "thaw" which
> could avoid this situation in future.

Thank Jürgen for the detailed explanation.
I think advertising widely and clearly the availability of nightlies,
and asking for test and feedback could slightly help here.
All the best.
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