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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Jürgen is the release manager and ultimately proposes/decides when to release 3.0. So I don't know what his opinion is.</p>
<p>My personal opinion is in line with Nyall. Core devs should have enough time to properly prepare everything and do at least the API changes/redesign/refactoring properly. After 3.0 there won't be API breaks for a longer time, so it is better to have enough time to do things properly.</p>
<p>A double dev cycle, followed by a double test cycle (testing and bug fixing) would be useful. If we stick with the four month release cycle with a double dev cycle this could mean a feature freeze somewhere around May and a release after a two month test/bug fixing period somewhere around July. Just a very rough idea, and not discussed with the core devs and Jürgen ...</p>
<p>Thoughts?</p>
<p>Andreas</p>
<p>On 2017-01-05 23:57, Nyall Dawson wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">On 6 January 2017 at 03:43, Tom Chadwin <<a href="mailto:tom.chadwin@nnpa.org.uk">tom.chadwin@nnpa.org.uk</a>> wrote:
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0">Hello all<br /><br /> Amazing work going on for QGIS3 - I'm in awe of you all (as always).<br /><br /> I've been getting more and more nervous about how easy it will be to convert<br /> my plugin, so yesterday I started to have a go. With lots of help from<br /> Matthias (huge thanks, as ever!), I got a good way through the process. I<br /> think I can now do it. I certainly don't feel so nervous.<br /><br /> However, Nyall pointed out that there is still a lot of change to come to<br /> the API. I'm happy to abandon the work I've done so far, as it has achieved<br /> its aim of getting me familiar with what the job will entail.<br /><br /> So, my question is, when would be the best time to start the actual<br /> conversion of our plugins? Is there going to be an obvious time in QGIS3<br /> development for this to happen? Can it be announced on the list?</blockquote>
<br /> I'd say just before/after feature freeze. There's still some very<br /> large API changes in store, eg Martin's current refactoring of the<br /> project and map layers will likely have large impact on your plugin,<br /> and I'd hate to see you have to "port twice". By the time feature<br /> freeze comes into play the large API changes will all have been locked<br /> in (or have to wait till 4.0!).<br /><br /> There's no time frame for this yet, but I'll fight hard against any<br /> plans for a release before mid-year.<br /><br /> Nyall<br /><br /><br /><br />
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