Hi Nyall, others On 27/12/18 22:58, Nyall Dawson wrote: > On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 at 18:42, Paolo Cavallini <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From another standpoint, we still have 102 Q3 regressions: >> https://issues.qgis.org/projects/qgis/issues?query_id=27 >> From a quick scroll, I suspect at least some of them are not >> particularly relevant, but a thorough analysis is needed. > > Yeah, a quick flick through revealed a very mixed lot -- many sound > familiar and likely have already been fixed, some I know are still > outstanding, and many waiting feedback for too long and should be just > closed.
I think a triaging would be useful here to have a more accurate picture. Anyone willing to do it and report back? > > I guess my question is (if we do delay the 2.x EOL as a result of > these) is how many regressions are "acceptable" before EOL? We'll > never get this to 0 -- there's been too many "by design" changes to > make a zero regression target feasible (See obligatory xkcd ref: > https://xkcd.com/1172/). > >> I'm not sure whether it will be acceptable for our users to release an >> LTR with these regression, but this could be a way of putting pressure >> on donors to help us fix them. > > Big +1 to this. If I'm being blunt, I think if a bug is a blocker to > an organisation moving to 3.4, it's ultimately going to sit with them > to get it fixed (or to sponsor QGIS and support the funded bug hunts). > (Or, perhaps, in the case of regressions in features an organisation > originally funded -- it's their responsibility to put pressure on the > original developer they paid for the feature to fix it and protect it > with suitable unit tests -- but that's between them and their original > developer). Agreed. It's a matter of communicating properly to users. We have time to write a blog post and circulating it well before EOL. Thanks. -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu QGIS.ORG Chair: http://planet.qgis.org/planet/user/28/tag/qgis%20board/ _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
