Hi Andreas, On Fri, 21. Feb 2014 at 15:30:45 +0000, Andreas Neumann wrote: > Maybe in the future we could also test binary packages before we > "officially" release QGIS. After all this is what people use out their. > If packages are broken (even if QGIS from source is fine) this will be > bad for QGIS reputation. 95% of the QGIS users will judge QGIS after the > quality of the package they install. They would not install from source.
That's what the test period is for - the differences there are minor (at least for Windows and the debian/ubuntu packages). But a lot of people will always wait for the release before they start to test and find stuff that no one ran into while testing - of course some of those could be found in a separate package testing phase (and with a extensive test suite), but packaging problems can also be handled outside of the qgis release schedule. > I guess any company with a "product" would do that. I know, we are a project > and not a company, but I think from a QA perspective we should really also > test packages before releasing stuff. At least for the most common OS, like > Win64, latest OSX, latest Ubuntu/Debian. As the packaging is now outside of qgis (and IMHO is was that way earlier - eg. bugs in the OSGeo4W packages should be filed there - but the standalone installer from repackaged OSGeo4W packages is a gray area). For Windows there's already some threshold - I'll first put the new release into OSGeo4W and produce a standalone installer some time later... Jürgen -- Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. +49-4931-918175-31 Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rheinstraße 13 Fax. +49-4931-918175-50 Software Engineer D-26506 Norden http://www.norbit.de QGIS PSC member (RM) Germany IRC: jef on FreeNode -- norBIT Gesellschaft fuer Unternehmensberatung und Informationssysteme mbH Rheinstrasse 13, 26506 Norden GF: Jelto Buurman, HR: Amtsgericht Emden, HRB 5502 _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer