[Qgis-psc] [QGIS-Developer] Unscheduled 3.18.1 release?

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Giovanni,

On Sun, 28. Feb 2021 at 10:13:22 +0000, Giovanni Manghi wrote:
> to me it should be removed. The message was a warning for who had SAGA
> >2 installed because we shipped QGIS with SAGA description files for
> SAGA 2.*

Ok

> Now we ship SAGA 7.* with the description files for this version, so
> no need anymore for the message.

We still ship the 2.x files and some platform still expect them (ie. current
osgeo4w).

Testing osgeo4w updates processing on install.

> > And some more time to let people test with the new dependencies on Windows
> > would probably be good too
 
> Well... if you are onboard with it then I formally propose to include
> a 1 month testing period between the date of the creation of the
> installers for any .0 release and the date of the release.
> This would give time to test the artifacts and fix the outstanding issues.

Hm, so the .0 installers would be released when .1 comes out?   That would be
odd.

Or are you suggesting to only do 2 months of development, 1 month of feature
freeze/fixing and 1 month cool down/testing/fixing of blocking issues (if we're
sticking to our four monthly schedule)?

OTOH we could easily announce the packages for .0 as experimental, so that
people know that they could have issues.  But that might mean that they wait
for .1 and the issues would be just be found later.

The issues that make a quick 3.18.1 necessary could have been spotted in the
nightlies too, couldn't they?  But I guess people didn't try those and waited
for the release instead.


Jürgen

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