[Qgis-psc] On finances

Paolo Cavallini cavallini at faunalia.it
Tue Dec 4 00:02:05 PST 2018


Hi Nyall,

On 12/4/18 12:24 AM, Nyall Dawson wrote:
> In practice I can't really see how this would be any different from
> the LTR, which already sees a steady flow of fixes and no features.
> Having a "bug fix only" release won't directly result in more incoming
> fixes or funding for people to work solely on fixes, rather it would
> be the same rate of fixes that we see coming into the LTR release
> already [1]. Instead it's likely to just result in developers working
> on queued features which will all land the day when that release
> "thaws", probably resulting in MORE issues then if these features had
> been introduced in one at a time.
>
> (That's without even touching the difficulty in changing the published
> release schedule now, where devs and customers have already planned
> timelines and feature implementation based on the current schedule!)

Fully agreed on both your arguments.

All the best.

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Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
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