Hi Bo, On Tue, 22. Jul 2014 at 17:17:43 +0200, Bo Victor Thomsen wrote: > Furthermore: Every new release contains - of course - new features and > bug fixes. But with the addition of new features you always get some new > bugs; both in the new features but occasionally in some _existing, > previously functioning_ part of QGIS.
We had that in 1.7 even without new feature - backported fixes introduced new bugs. > The current release cycle look roughly like this: > 1. Development phase, 3 months of adding new features and bug fixes to > QGIS in a developer version of QGIS > 2. Feature freeze, 1 month cleaning and polishing the developer > version, i.e. bug fixing the new features and removing old bugs. > Updating of translations. > 3. Release of the developer version as the new stable version of QGIS > and start of a new developer version of QGIS > 4. 1 month of reporting and bug fixing the new stable release and a > probably a second minor release of the new version Currently we do three months of development, 1 months of testing and fixing, then we releases and start the next development phase. There is no set plan for backporting and/or point/bugfix releases. So just two phases - but yes, three releases a year. > My suggestion is that *one* of the three version cycles is replaced with > the following: > 1. Development phase, *1* month of adding new features and bug fixes to > QGIS in a developer version of QGIS One month is too short. > 2. Bug fixing only feature freeze, *3* months cleaning and polishing > the developer version, i.e. bug fixing the new features and removing old > bugs with *special care* taken for finding and removing bugs introduced in > the last two cycles. Updating of translations. > 3. Release of the developer version as the new stable version of QGIS > and start of a new developer version of QGIS > 4. *1* month of reporting and bugfixing the new stable release and a > with a *guaranteed* second minor release of the new version. That means 5 months in total - that's also a problem, because the 4 month period is scheduled to avoid holidays. 5 months would make sure that they eventually get in the way. That means one more releases a year (2x development, 2x bugfix releases instead of 3) and one month of parallel work on two branches. Well the latter might mean that the parallel month doesn't count and we still have three periods a year - but that would then mean three more releases a year. Jürgen -- Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. +49-4931-918175-31 Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rheinstraße 13 Fax. +49-4931-918175-50 Software Engineer D-26506 Norden http://www.norbit.de QGIS release manager (PSC) Germany IRC: jef on FreeNode -- norBIT Gesellschaft fuer Unternehmensberatung und Informationssysteme mbH Rheinstrasse 13, 26506 Norden GF: Jelto Buurman, HR: Amtsgericht Emden, HRB 5502 _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
