[Qgis-psc] Which version should be LT?

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi Anita, Richard,

In a normal situation I would full-heartedly agree - yes - stick to the 
1year release schedule for LTRs. But in our current situation  - if we 
release 2.16 - I really think it would be more beneficial to ours users 
that we end the 2.x releases with an LTR.

At least yesterday at the annual QGIS-CH user meeting - when we 
discussed the issue of 3.0 - the vast majority of the Swiss users 
proposed that we should end with an LTR. Having the last release as LTR 
is more important to them then the regular release schedule.

I am just transporting here the opinion of the Swiss QGIS users. 
Probably many other users would think the same.

And of course - because we had not plan for QGIS 3.0 until now - there 
was no opportunity to discuss this matter earlier - that's why I am 
bringing it up just now - in the light of the discussion we had 
yesterday at the meeting.

Andreas

 > I don't think that documentation/translation work will be "lost" if 
we make 2.16 the LT, and not 2.14. 95% of what you document/translate 
will be the same in 2.16. And besides that - documentation was nevery 
fully in sync ...
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> > Users are mature enough to cope with the situation that 
> documentation and what they see in QGIS is slightly different.
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> I agree with Richard. It's not about our users being adults. It's 
> about our project behaving professionally and that means not changing 
> plans last minute and having in-sync LTR documentation.
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> Best wishes
> Anita
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