Hi Tom, On Tue, 30. Jun 2015 at 11:14:57 -0700, Tom Chadwin wrote: > This post is in no way a criticism of any of the QGIS team and their > monumental efforts or their fabulous product. However, I thought someone > should question how successful the four-monthly release schedule is. 2.8 > immediately needed 2.8.1, and there seems to be the chance that 2.10 is > immediately going to need 2.10.1.
> Is the predestined release schedule meaning that the devs simply cannot test > as much as they need? Alternatively, should the feature freeze be extended? In an open source project I see testing more a job for users and not for devs. That's why we have all those nightly builds that users could test. In feature freeze the users should test more, report and the devs should fix what's reported. If the devs also had do all the testing (including coming up with all sorts of environments), we'd probably never got as far as we are. We're only a few devs, but a lot of users. While that usually applies to all software, I imagine that our ratio is still different. I might be wrong, but to me the fact that 2.8 and 2.10 instantly needed a point release is more a sign that still not enough people (ie. users) participate in testing QGIS before the release. If all the opportunity of preliminary testing was used, the .0 rule ideally wouldn't even apply to us. As we'd all work together to get master into a good state to release - and after the release just establish that we've done a good job on it. I doubt that revising the schedule would change that - but it might just make investing in features less attractive. Still if we find there are more serious reports during feature freeze than we can cope with, we can see if the schedule need revision - but I think that this wasn't the case in either 2.8 or 2.10. 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
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