Hi Jürgen On 07/13/2015 01:23 PM, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote: > Hi Matthias, > > On Mon, 13. Jul 2015 at 12:46:50 +0200, Matthias Kuhn wrote: >> I think it would be great to branch a release-candidate-2_8_3 (no >> binaries released, just to backport possible issues identified on the >> release-2_8 binaries, related to pre-rc-commits). This way people can >> happily continue to backport stuff. > What's the point if there are no binaries? Testing is done not intensive > enough even with binaries - w/o binaries it's likely to be even worse. That our release manager does not need to create yet another set of binaries. And I am confident, that a bug introduced with a pre-release-candidate commit will also be identified on the binaries produced for the release-branch with a couple of unrelated commits on top.
> >> Until this happens (and mainly for the situation where it does not happen) >> *I would like to ask all committers to stop backporting to the >> release-2_8 branch* as of tomorrow, July 14, 2015 (so you have still >> today to push the urgent fixes you never got round to merge). >> This way we'll have a stable 2.8.3 in the beginning of August. > That's can be done without a separate branch - and w/o a separate branch there > would be nightlies to test... That's why I proposed that one in bold :) > > My concern is more when https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/2197 is going to be > resolved - as that is what 2.10.1 is waiting for. There are still 24 hours to merge it and follow the proposed schedule. Best, Matthias
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