Hi Jürgen, Thanks for the clarifications, that helps!
Cheers, Denis On Fri, 18 Jun 2021, 18:04 Jürgen E. Fischer, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Denis, > > On Fri, 18. Jun 2021 at 14:12:44 +0200, Denis Rouzaud wrote: > > Is there a place where it's explained how the release process works with > > respect to the master branch and the creation of the new release branch? > > I don't think so. The release itself is done with scripts/release.pl. > > > > My practical questions are: > > * when shall we stop merging bugfixes ? or can we continue merging > without > > issues? (IIRC I think we have to hold for a bit?) > > Merging stuff to master between the release time and the push of the > release > commits/branches would be bad (esp. the translations take a while to pull > and > push). > > Committing new fixes to the fresh release branch could also be postponed a > bit > before the packages are out - in case there have to be some packaging > related > updates for stuff that pops up during packaging. Otherwise those fresh > fixes > would also end up in the packages. Although that would not be actual harm > - > probably right the opposite - but maybe unexpected. > > Committing to the master branch right after the release is fine however. > > > * when can we start merging features to master again? (as soon as the new > > release-3_x branch is created?) > > Yes. > > > 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 > https://www.norbit.de > QGIS release manager (PSC) Germany IRC: jef on FreeNode >
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