QGIS 3.0 Soft Feature Freeze

Please refer to the previous discussion on the developer list for more context on this discussion. This thread is to determine when the feature freeze for 3.0 will take effect. The following items are currently listed as exempt from the freeze:
- Datum transform handling (https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/5535)
- SAGA Support (https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/5155)
- GRASS Support (https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/5426)
- Metadata write support to file system (https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/5379)
- UI Widgets for drag forms (https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/5467)
- Composer refactor ( https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/5486 to drop bindings and new PR to come for composer refactor).
- New QGIS Welcome page (https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/102)
According to our proposal the freeze status will be voted on a fortnightly basis.

Mathieu Pellerin
Sun 17 Dec 2017 5:37AM
Looks like we might not need another extension if the pace doesn't change, great!

Werner Macho
Sun 17 Dec 2017 8:46AM
I'm with the others .. This should be the last extension. We're close to have everything included and at some point should come to an end and fullfill the predictions we do for our "professional" users

Poll Created Mon 1 Jan 2018 7:39PM
Shall we continue the soft freeze for two more weeks? Closed Thu 4 Jan 2018 7:34PM
Please see https://www.loomio.org/d/38Aiya0q/3-0-soft-freeze-exemptions for any other incoming exception requests.
Results
Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |
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Agree | 22.2% | 2 |
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Abstain | 33.3% | 3 |
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Disagree | 44.4% | 4 |
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Block | 0.0% | 0 | ||
Undecided | 0% | 18 |
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9 of 27 people have participated (33%)

Nyall Dawson
Mon 1 Jan 2018 9:05PM
Unsure... Final two PRs are in for layouts work (and will hopefully be merged before this poll expires!). Can we get a status report on the remaining metadata work?

Tim Sutton
Mon 1 Jan 2018 11:30PM
@nyall the metadata work we were hoping to have done before the xmas break. Etienne is just finishing up the file system read/write support - I hope he will have it within the next week or so. Any plans for ATLAS support in 3.0?

Mathieu Pellerin
Tue 2 Jan 2018 1:27AM
I think we've reached a point where we sounds terminate the soft freeze and declare its use a success story. The vote-every-two-weeks method turned out to be a great way to give devs flexibility while avoiding a total absence of ETA altogether.

Alessandro Pasotti
Wed 3 Jan 2018 8:25AM
I think that we'd benefit from at least one more week: the layout PR is not yet completed and there might be are other PRs in the queue that worth a closer look.
Alexander Bruy
Wed 3 Jan 2018 10:34AM
IMHO we can move to the hard freeze if remaining pull-requests will be reviewed and merged in reasonable time
Matthias Kuhn
Wed 3 Jan 2018 10:55AM
I think it's time to move on and set the finish line. Let's push towards getting things fixed and call it a release cycle. Qt is also aiming at version 6, so we can do 4 as well :D http://blog.qt.io/blog/2017/02/22/qt-roadmap-for-2017/
Borys Jurgiel
Wed 3 Jan 2018 3:07PM
After long thinking, +1 for the very last time, so Nyall and Etienne have a bit more flexibility with last minute changes. Other PRs seem to be a bit abandoned, so I hope it won't really postpone the release.

Mathieu Pellerin Tue 2 Jan 2018 1:29AM
I've also tested the other PR (upgrading 2.x composers to layouts) and found it to work very well too.
Nyall Dawson · Tue 2 Jan 2018 12:42AM
Atlas (and the new reporting framework) is in https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/5966 . Just waiting on a code review (atlas was user tested by nirvn). The other pr is https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/5913, which upgrades compositions in 2.x projects to layouts. But that isn't necessarily a blocker for hard freeze in my opinion and could be merged after freeze.