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On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 at 22:36, Andreas Neumann <<a href="mailto:andreas@qgis.org" target="_blank">andreas@qgis.org</a>> wrote:
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<i>> - If you introduce a new QGIS version to approx 100 users, you cannot afford to use a .1, .2 or not even a .3 release that might contain serious issues.<br>...<br>
> The result is: the window where we can really effectively get bug fixing into QGIS is really very short: maybe 2-4 months of a year, then the LTR version is abandoned by QGIS.<br>
</i><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks Andreas for bringing this up.</div><div><br></div><div>At my workplace it is pretty much the same. I have to make sure the QGIS version is stable enough before I roll it out to the production environment. The first month after the first QGIS3 release it was just not stable enough for our needs. The last month we had two showstoppers in QGIS3: (bug while selecting oracle features ( <a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/32965">https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/32965</a> ) and missing bwta-grid support in QGIS ( <a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/proj-datumgrid/issues/22#issuecomment-560004559">https://github.com/OSGeo/proj-datumgrid/issues/22#issuecomment-560004559</a> ) so we plan the rollout not to be done before March 2020.</div><div><br></div><div>From my point of view a longer life span of the LTR would also be highly appreciated but I can understand that it will increase the effords in maintaining the LTR releases.</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I wonder if it would have been possible for us to have helped speeding up the time needed until QGIS3 got stable enough. We have support agreements with core developers and if we find a bug which affects us we pay for the bugfix. <br></div><div>But for opening a ticket at your QGIS service provider I guess you need to be able to reproduce the crash. We had several crashes when closing QGIS for example where we did not really know what exactly caused the crash so we could not open a ticket. <br></div><div><br></div><div>In the past (with QGIS2) we collected crash dumps and error messages to send it to our service provider but this never really helped to find the reason of this crashes so we gave it up to try to fix not reproducible
bugs.</div><div><br></div><div>regards,</div><div>Thomas</div><div><br></div></div>