[Qgis-psc] [QGIS-Developer] Call for emergency 3.22 release

[Nyall Dawson]

On Thu, 2 Feb 2023, 6:12 pm Alessandro Pasotti, <apasotti at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 for immediate release from me.
>
> On a side note (because I sympathize thinking about what I would feel
> if it was a commit of mine) : Julien is doing an amazing job, a
> mistake can happen to anyone.
>

100% agree - it could easily have been any of us leading to this.

I think the main lesson for us is "just" that we need to be extra careful
with backports to ltr, and carefully assess whether every backport is
really warranted or not.

Nyall

>
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 7:38 AM Andreas Neumann via QGIS-Developer
> <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Nyall,
> >
> > I agree, this is a pretty nasty one. Jürgen - can we release another
> release soon?
> >
> > Thank you Even for your reflections on the code patterns involved. I
> trust that the core devs will discuss and suggest improvements in our
> documentation/guidelines in order to avoid similar cases in the future.
> >
> > Thank you for your response.
> >
> > Andreas
> >
> > On 2023-02-02 02:19, Nyall Dawson via QGIS-Developer wrote:
> >
> > Hi PSC/list,
> >
> > I came across this horrible regression during bug hunting today:
> > https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/51703
> >
> > If you load a project with any broken layers and then hover over the
> > layer in the layer tree, QGIS will instantly crash. It's a regression
> > caused by https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/50256, and unfortunately
> > that PR was backported to 3.22 and accordingly the crash present in
> > the final release of 3.22.
> >
> > Given the extreme severity of this crash I believe we should be
> > pushing out another unplanned 3.22 patch release, as we cannot leave
> > the final 3.22 LTR with such a nasty regression in place.
> >
> > Nyall
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