On 3 January 2018 at 06:51, Tim Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > On 02 Jan 2018, at 12:16, Nyall Dawson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2 January 2018 at 19:54, Mathieu Pellerin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > +1 to set a release date for the last week of January. That'll give us 2 > weeks of freeze period (assuming the vote turns out not to extend the soft > freeze) which can be used to focus on fixes only. The soft freeze period saw > a nice set of fixes too, which was nice. > > > I'm in favour of hard freezing this time (assuming we can get those > last couple of PRs reviewed quickly and merged). > > But I'm against setting a hard deadline for the final release yet. > That said truth is that IMO 3.0 still feels very buggy, and there's > lots of open high priority regressions against it. I think we've got > two options: > > 1. Move to a regular "are we ready for final release?" vote > > or > > 2. Just decide that 3.0.0 will have bugs, and that we should "release > early, release often" and hope that we stabilise things quickly for > > 3.0.1/3.0.2/… > > > > I think on balance I prefer option #2 as it will get more people using QGIS 3 > - we must just be careful to tell people that it is ‘next-gen’ and that the > LTR is still 2.18….
Ok, let me re-word option 2 as: "2. Carefully manage release expectations, with detailed explanations of known issues and regressions in the release notes. Stress in press releases/release notes that 3.0 is a new major release and that the QGIS team do not consider it a suitable replacement for the current stable LTR release, and that it is highly recommended that organisations do not replace their existing QGIS 2.x installations before careful in-house testing and evaluation of its suitability for their workplace. The next stable LTR QGIS release will be QGIS 3.2." Nyall _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
