<div dir="ltr"><div>Nyall,<br><br></div>Great initiative! The sooner a plan can be agreed upon, the better.<br><br>Coincidentally
to your QEP proposal, I came up with an alternative timeline idea over
the last few days that would avoid skipping a release cycle but still
give us enough time to complete the port to Qt5.<br><br>Basically, we
begin the development cycle of both 2.14 LTR _as well as_ 3.0 at the
same time, following the public release of 2.12. The simultaneous
overlapping development of those two versions (for the first four
months) would have two distinct objectives and release dates:<br>- for
2.14 LTR, the development cycle would last 4 months and would be
released, as planned, on 26.02.2016 with a focus on stability and bugfix
based on the feedback from users on 2.12 (small-ish new features could
be pushed too)<br>- for 3.0, the development cycle would last 8 months,
with the first four months overlapping with the development of 2.14 LTR,
and be released on 26.06.2016 (as our 4-month release cycle would have
it following the release of 2.14 LTR) with a focus on porting QGIS to
Qt5 and python 3 as well as significant new features.<br><br>This
alternate timeline proposal both speeds up the delivery of QGIS 3.0 as
well as insuring QGIS 2.14 LTR is shipped with a focus on stability as
devs can push new features onto QGIS 3.0.<br><br>Thoughts?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Nyall Dawson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nyall.dawson@gmail.com" target="_blank">nyall.dawson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
<br>
Thought I'd try and get things moving on this. Please see<br>
<br>
<a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/pull/24" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/pull/24</a><br>
<br>
for a QEP regarding QGIS 3.0 being the release after 2.14 and the<br>
changes proposed for 3.0.<br>
<br>
Feedback welcome!<br>
Nyall<br>
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