Road Map¶

Fase di sviluppo¶

Nella fase di sviluppo, gli sviluppatori lavorano sulle nuove funzionalità per la prossima versione. Si possono utilizzare i pacchetti compilati quotidianamente per tutte le principali piattaforme per vedere i progressi di sviluppo, fare test preliminari ed inoltrare segnalazioni di bug e aiutare con lo sviluppo.

Feature freeze¶

In the feature freeze phase, new features are not allowed in anymore and the focus of everyone moves from enhancing QGIS to stabilizing it. This also turns the nightly builds effectively into prereleases.

Users should start extensive testing of these prereleases in their environment to verify that there are no issues, they wouldn’t want to see in the upcoming release. All such issues should be reported (see Bugs, Features and Issues). Everything that goes unnoticed, will also end up in the next release. Only in case of serious problems backports to a latest release will occur. Therefore testing of the prereleases and reporting issues is very important.

In the feature freeze, developers monitor the bugtracker and start working on fixing the reported issues and update the visual changelog with the features they added.

With the start of the feature freeze, the translation files will be updated so that translators can start their work. Note that this might be an incremental process as although the features are frozen, bug fixes might still introduce translation string changes.

Two weeks before the release, a hard freeze is initiated after which only fixes to severe problems and regressions introduced after the feature freeze are allowed in.

The release manager announces this on feature freeze.

Rilascio¶

On major and minor release dates, the release branch is created and the release is tagged and tar balls are prepared. Point releases are just tagged and tar balls are created.

The packagers are notified that packaging can begin.

Once some packages are available the release can be announced and the website is updated accordingly.

Agenda dei rilasci¶

The schedule is aligned to produce roughly the same dates for each year given our four monthly releases with LTRs entering the LTR repo in late february.

Beginning after 2.12 the development phase is always 12 weeks and the freeze phase is at least 5 weeks. Remainders are used to extend the freeze phase of LTR releases.

Point releases will happen every month on the latest release branch branch, if there are backports. Beginning with the 3.28 release point releases are only done with new latest releases.

In the first four months after its release, a new LTR is also the current LR. In this phase, the new LTR doesn’t replace the previous LTR in the LTR repositories. This happens as soon as a new LR is released.

Questa pianificazione è disponibile anche come «iCalendar».

Posizione delle prerelease/pacchetti compilati quotidinamente¶