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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Lene,<br>
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Does Your proposal mean that those universities, which start to
use QGIS and QGIS based material for education, start to support
QGIS development financially and with other resources like man
power for testing, fixing etc. ?<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Kari<br>
<br>
On 07/21/2014 06:35 PM, Lene Fischer wrote:<br>
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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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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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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Kari Salovaara
Hanko, Finland
"Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart."
~ Elizabeth Andrew</pre>
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