Hi Andreas, On Thu, 26. Jun 2014 at 14:43:19 +0000, Andreas Neumann wrote: > I have to agree with Nathan and Denis. It would me buch better to announce a > release when the packages are ready. I remember that last time there was some > confusion and disappointment by users reading tweets that QGIS was available > and then they could not install it on their platform.
That was the first time - it might have come unexpected to the user. They'll probably get used to it. > Sorry Jürgen that we discuss this at the very latest. I was already happy > that we got one week more time for testing/bug fixing. > At least for the next release we should have packages ready before the > announcement. Or only inform developers about the release and then the > regular users when the packages are ready. Which packages? OSGeo4W? Windows standalone? Debian? Ubuntu? Ubuntugis? Fedora? RHEL/CentOS/SL? OpenSUSE, Mandriva? Slackware? ArchLinux? OSX? FreeBSD? Android? All? Some/which? How long do we wait? I rather get the (source) release done, get my packages done (a good share of the above) and then get back to master... 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