On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 8:47 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> We could also cut the beta just to confirm master is releasable, and not
> branch. Make the first release candidate the branch to achieve the same
> effect.
>
> It has the advantage of less moving parts, but we do not get a code freeze
> to focus on bugs. But as you point out that is not happening so much.
>
Unless I am misunderstanding you, this is what we do currently - branch on
the RC. What are you actually suggesting here?
Torben
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 2:45 AM Ian Turton <ijtur...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I agree we hardly ever see any feedback before the .0 release. Which is a
>> shame but nothing we do seems to make a difference to customers.
>>
>> So +1 for me
>>
>> Ian
>>
>> On 16 February 2018 at 09:32, Nuno Oliveira <nuno.oliveira@geo-solutions.
>> it> wrote:
>>
>>> I don't have any voting power, just want to express my +1 towards that
>>> change ... and indeed I don't see the advantage of the RC release.
>>> If users don't provide feedback, bug fix doesn't happen ... what are the
>>> advantages of having the RC release ?
>>>
>>>
>>> On 02/16/2018 03:18 AM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
>>>
>>>> +1. It does seem that we are not getting much benefit from waiting
>>>> until RC to branch, and any fix would be applied to master and the new
>>>> stable before the .0 release. We could drop the RC altogether. The current
>>>> procedure incurs not only a delay but also the work of an extra release
>>>> (the RC).
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>> Ben.
>>>>
>>>> On 14/02/18 22:58, Andrea Aime wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi (apologies for the cross post),
>>>>> I would like to hear opinions on changing the release procedures
>>>>> slightly,
>>>>> and cutting the stable
>>>>> branch directly on the beta release.
>>>>>
>>>>> The reason for not doing the cut on beta but on RC originally was to
>>>>> push
>>>>> devs to concentrate
>>>>> on bug fixing.
>>>>> However, since then we have shortened the beta life to just two weeks,
>>>>> we
>>>>> are not getting significant
>>>>> feedback from users (which typically starts flowing in on .0 or even .1
>>>>> releases), and the bug fixing activity
>>>>> is rather small (I try to do it anyways, but find myself fixing old
>>>>> bugs,
>>>>> not new ones).
>>>>>
>>>>> I've also noticed that I routinely created short lived forks of master
>>>>> to
>>>>> keep on working on my daily job.
>>>>> Wondering, am I the only one?
>>>>>
>>>>> If not, or if others don't mind anyways, wouldn't it be better to just
>>>>> cut
>>>>> the stable branch on beta instead?
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> Andrea
>>>>>
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