Hi All, I know I'm not in PSC or or core dev here. I feel uneasy about that thread, because both options are right from a certain point of view. We strongly need fixed calendar to organize a fluid release workflow. We also need releases with as few blockers as possible. So, since QGIS is still extremely fast to get new features - thanks to all of you - I'm afraid blockers solved after the release date, will let some room to new blockers if we don't put strong quality rules in dev and tests. I understand Radim when he says all releases will have big blockers then.
As a funder, my reaction to this would be to go funding a stable branch with bugfixing releases. But.. we partly choose QGIS because our fundings were also profiting to all the small NGO's and local authorities we finance to improve water management. Then, I need a free public stable release (financed upstream by funders), and not a paying service. I can't agree to have a good software, and pay for it with public funds, and do not afford small authorities we finance- to get the same stable software... To solve that paradox, I'm trying to convince my whole hierarchy (2 levels done, 2 remaining!) to go for sponsoring. I hope in this way encourage you to have more resources for tests and bugfixing. For 2.0 , I tried to finance bug fixing, but it is almost impossible in France to do that. We can't hire someone for days of work, we can only do it for a clearly predefined work). Having planned release dates will also help me have someone do standard real use cases with prerelease versions once feature freeze is started. It remains difficult to me since users don't like testing and reporting yet here, I feel a bit alone doing that. I'm pretty convinced this is a cultural change and some power users could help, but most users won't contribute.. And I'm not sure my hierarchy will follow with such time consuming tasks if it implies other workers. Again, agreed with Radim when he says funders already funded things.. By myself, I think a release every 4 month is too much. I'm only in capacity to get involve in a migration for users once a year (80 users to manage, + Citrix deploiement tests, and docs..) . (That's a only my situation, others could prefer a frequent release) Anyway, keep going on a stable calendar, and we'll do our best testing and funding. Valmeria will be an excellent release. Cheers! Régis -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Failing-tests-consider-blockers-tp5103837p5104799.html Sent from the Quantum GIS - Developer mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
