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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">This is not a mail about bugs or issues on a special feature – just a matter of time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Right now I´m preparing a 3 week intensive GIS course at university level - looking forward to these annual events. But I get stressed when I see that there are only 94 days until next version of QGIS. Because in November
I start over again with a 8 week course and in February a 3 week course, in may a 3 week course. All in all we have more than 140 students learning QGIS every year – and they are impressed of this program!!!
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">I love getting new features in the program, but fear the work to run through every assignment, every video and being a bit unsure how the program works in the latest version on the different platforms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Small changes which I haven´t noticed and therefore unaware of. So a new version so soon gives me a lot of stress and so many hours of work – hours which could be used to ex. testing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">When I ask users to download the program they take the official latest version – sometimes with bugs included… It gives an impression of an unprofessional product (not my words), it gives me- and others hard times
to fix or explain. I´ve been talking to other users/administrators who has the same experience.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">What if we had :<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">A long term stable version for ex. 12 months with bugfix only<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">A developer version for 4 months with new features and bugfixes => Stable version with short bugfix-period => New developer……..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">I do know it will give the developers more work – I do know it will cost more money – But I´m sure a lot of administrators will recommend, use and support if we get a more stable environment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">So please – consider another release plan in the future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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