We could also cut the beta just to confirm master is releasable, and not
branch. Make the first release candidate the branch to achieve the same
effect.
It has the advantage of less moving parts, but we do not get a code freeze
to focus on bugs. But as you point out that is not happening so much.
On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 2:45 AM Ian Turton <ijtur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree we hardly ever see any feedback before the .0 release. Which is a
> shame but nothing we do seems to make a difference to customers.
>
> So +1 for me
>
> Ian
>
> On 16 February 2018 at 09:32, Nuno Oliveira <
> nuno.olive...@geo-solutions.it> wrote:
>
>> I don't have any voting power, just want to express my +1 towards that
>> change ... and indeed I don't see the advantage of the RC release.
>> If users don't provide feedback, bug fix doesn't happen ... what are the
>> advantages of having the RC release ?
>>
>>
>> On 02/16/2018 03:18 AM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
>>
>>> +1. It does seem that we are not getting much benefit from waiting until
>>> RC to branch, and any fix would be applied to master and the new stable
>>> before the .0 release. We could drop the RC altogether. The current
>>> procedure incurs not only a delay but also the work of an extra release
>>> (the RC).
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Ben.
>>>
>>> On 14/02/18 22:58, Andrea Aime wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi (apologies for the cross post),
>>>> I would like to hear opinions on changing the release procedures
>>>> slightly,
>>>> and cutting the stable
>>>> branch directly on the beta release.
>>>>
>>>> The reason for not doing the cut on beta but on RC originally was to
>>>> push
>>>> devs to concentrate
>>>> on bug fixing.
>>>> However, since then we have shortened the beta life to just two weeks,
>>>> we
>>>> are not getting significant
>>>> feedback from users (which typically starts flowing in on .0 or even .1
>>>> releases), and the bug fixing activity
>>>> is rather small (I try to do it anyways, but find myself fixing old
>>>> bugs,
>>>> not new ones).
>>>>
>>>> I've also noticed that I routinely created short lived forks of master
>>>> to
>>>> keep on working on my daily job.
>>>> Wondering, am I the only one?
>>>>
>>>> If not, or if others don't mind anyways, wouldn't it be better to just
>>>> cut
>>>> the stable branch on beta instead?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Andrea
>>>>
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