Hi Matthias, On Mon, 13. Jul 2015 at 13:44:49 +0200, Matthias Kuhn wrote: > On 07/13/2015 01:23 PM, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote: > > On Mon, 13. Jul 2015 at 12:46:50 +0200, Matthias Kuhn wrote: > >> I think it would be great to branch a release-candidate-2_8_3 (no > >> binaries released, just to backport possible issues identified on the > >> release-2_8 binaries, related to pre-rc-commits). This way people can > >> happily continue to backport stuff. > > What's the point if there are no binaries? Testing is done not intensive > > enough even with binaries - w/o binaries it's likely to be even worse. > That our release manager does not need to create yet another set of > binaries. And I am confident, that a bug introduced with a > pre-release-candidate commit will also be identified on the binaries > produced for the release-branch with a couple of unrelated commits on top. > >> Until this happens (and mainly for the situation where it does not happen) > >> *I would like to ask all committers to stop backporting to the > >> release-2_8 branch* as of tomorrow, July 14, 2015 (so you have still > >> today to push the urgent fixes you never got round to merge). > >> This way we'll have a stable 2.8.3 in the beginning of August. > > That's can be done without a separate branch - and w/o a separate branch > > there > > would be nightlies to test...
> That's why I proposed that one in bold :) I still don't get the purpose of the release-candidate-2_8_3 branch. I'd say we declare a backport freeze now and only apply stuff introduced by backports in release-2_8 until we do a point release after two weeks. After that backporting can continue. > > My concern is more when https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/2197 is going to > > be resolved - as that is what 2.10.1 is waiting for. > There are still 24 hours to merge it and follow the proposed schedule. 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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