On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 11:14 PM Nyall Dawson <nyall.daw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi list, > > I'm after feedback on whether or not others think an explicit > policy/contract regarding bug fixing responsibilities for new features > is a good idea or not. > > I would like to see something like this added to the developer guidelines: > > "Following any new feature development, it is the original developer's > (or organisations) SOLE responsibility to implement bug fixes relating > to the new feature (or regressions to other parts of QGIS which have > resulted from its development). This extends up to the next major QGIS > release following the feature being merged*. It is NOT acceptable to > use QGIS.org sponsored bug fixing efforts to implement these fixes. > Failure to provide fixes to all reasonable bug reports raised for a > new feature may lead to that feature being reverted prior to release." > > *i.e. currently 3.14 > > Personally, I think having this as part of our developer agreement > would help clear up some ambiguity and source of frustration/conflict > between developers. > > Thoughts?
I've always felt it was an implicit agreement, but I totally agree that making it explicit is a good idea. Where exactly would you suggest to add that kind of statements? -- Alessandro Pasotti w3: www.itopen.it _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
