Hello.

On 04/09/2017 09:52 AM, Andrew Williams wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In general principle I would agree with you - everything we release should
> be of the top quality and there should never be a known regression.
>
> But then there is the context: we are now 4 months behind the original
> release date for 1.19. Anyone relying on our new apis or enhancements
> cannot release until we do and so I think that puts pressure up over time
> to release. Additionally we are able to get people to focus on bug fixing
> and testing for a couple of weeks to a month but at this point (according
> to my observations) most people are fed up of that and drifting off. Not
> only does that mean that the release slips further but, as we are in
> feature freeze, it means that valuable contributions are also falling
> behind and potentially being missed.

This does describe the procedure quite well. :)

The pain is almost over now as I prepare the tarballs for 1.19 :)

regards
Stefan Schmidt

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