[Qgis-psc] QGIS Soft Feature Freeze Voting (was Re: QGIS 3 release expectations)

[Larry Shaffer]

Hi Tim, et. al.,

Hmm. Well this is unfortunate timing for two API changes concerning the
authentication system. There appears to be no advance notice that a vote
had been scheduled (maybe I missed it). It seems the voting ballot measure
was created, then voting initiated immediately after, with no prior
concrete decision upon what contents the measure should include.

The two auth system API changes (one started but unfinished, the other not
yet drafted) were stalled due to recent resource changes at Boundless. The
work completion was to be decided upon tomorrow (Monday, Nov. 27th):

* Further fix threading support with a refactoring (started by Alessandro
Pasotti):
https://github.com/boundlessgeo/QGIS/commits/bd-2648-auth-thread-safety-refactoring
* Significantly reducing the auth system PyQGIS API to increase security
(see "PyQGIS API" section in https://github.com/qgis/qgis3.0_api/issues/73)

I've been on vacation for the past week, but should be able to work on
these in the coming week. Any chance of having these be exempt from the
soft freeze as well?

Regards,

Larry Shaffer

On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:

> Hi All
>
> Just to follow up on this, I have:
>
> * started a loomio group for just qgis/QGIS committers
> * invited all current committers (as per https://github.com/orgs/
> qgis/teams/qgis-developers/members)
> * started a thread for the feature freeze (https://www.loomio.org/d/
> 1c3nDQHL/qgis-3-0-soft-feature-freeze)
> * Initiated the first ballot for the feature freeze (you will see it
> listed not the above page)
>
> The voting process is transparent but only qgis/QGIS core committers may
> vote on it. Please note that if you are eligible you should have received
> an invite email to join the loomio group. If you did not, please contact me
> with your preferred email address and I will re-add you.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>
>
>
>
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> *Tim Sutton*
> QGIS Project Steering Committee Chair
> tim at qgis.org
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