[Qgis-psc] QGIS 2.18 bug fixing effort

[Nathan Woodrow]

Hey,

I'm not sure any process is going to help a lot here unless it's super
tight. In the end bugs happen so I suspect we just have to watch and have
people aware they can early test for us and get another release out quick
if needed.

- Nathan

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 7:18 PM, Jürgen E. Fischer <jef at norbit.de> wrote:

> Hi Nyall,
>
> On Tue, 23. May 2017 at 18:25:20 +1000, Nyall Dawson wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Well, I build from tags (unless there are required fixes to build).  So
> tagging is when packaging starts.  If there is a "thaw" time, it should be
> before tagging/release.  Not sure how long that time should be.
>
> A week?  Then we would have nightlies for the release, that could be
> tested,
> potential bugs still be fixed, run to a nightly again, be verified and
> still not delay the release.
>
> But we do point releases every 4 weeks, so 1 week would be a lot of that.
>
> Maybe it's just this point release that is special because of our bug
> fixing
> effort.  Usually we just backport fixes that have been verified to work in
> master (although that currently doesn't always work between 2.18 and
> master).
> But then again 2.18.6 had a similar issue.
>
>
>
> Jürgen
>
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