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<p>Hi all<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05.08.19 18:05, Paolo Cavallini
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Hiii all,
On 05/08/19 11:10, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On 8/5/19 1:00 AM, Nyall Dawson wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Fri, 2 Aug 2019 at 18:13, Matthias Kuhn <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:matthias@opengis.ch"><matthias@opengis.ch></a> wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap=""> d) Stop shipping bugfixes (hint: joke, that makes the LTR concept
pointless and anyone can do that today already by sticking to the .0
patch release ;) )
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Actually - jokes aside - this does raise a good question.
We've never (as far as i know) formally defined about what the goal of
the LTR is. Is it:
1. a version of QGIS with every bug fix possible backported
or
2. a version of QGIS with only absolutely critical bugfixes
backported, such as security risks or data corruption bugs
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That's a very good question.
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thanks, very important indeed. I assumed we decide for 1.
In fact, experience showed that it is preferable to be more
conservative, and only include fixes with very low chances of
regressions.</pre>
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<p>I see two "technical" and one economical issues here.<br>
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<p>- there is a sort of "regression obsession", IMO bugs are bugs,
and they should ideally be fixed whenever possible (also see
Jürgen's answer on another tread [1])</p>
<p>- assessing a "low chance of regression" is a gray area and as
Nyall said before "...every bug fix, regardless of how trivial it
seems, brings with it the increased chances of regressions into
the stable LTR release..."</p>
<p>- on the economical point of view, limiting the bugs that can be
fixed in an LTR will make it very difficult to actually get larger
users to pay for bug-fixing, they are the target group for the LTR
and slowly they are understanding that fixing bugs needs
resources. To me limiting the amount of bugs that can be fixed in
an LTR would be a very unwise move since it would also reduce the
number of bugs that get fixed in non LTR releases.<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap=""> I don't see a way to decide other than relying on the
developer's assessment. The only (costly) improvement I'd see is having
another independent core dev to check any bugfix before accepting it.
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<p>Cheers</p>
<p>Marco<br>
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