[Qgis-user] Ang: User question of the month

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi, 

I tend to agree with Bo - if I change my hat from being a QGIS
enthusiast who likes to live on the cutting edge - to being an
administrator responsible for many QGIS installations in different
departments of a government. In such an environment you want to minimize
the number of rollouts - because the rollouts cost time, money and
nerves. The fewer rollouts the better. And we have to wait until 2-4
minor releases are gone, until we have a more stable version. 

In our environment at a province level government we are more
conservative with rollouts (automated installations of QGIS packages),
with the exception of 1-2 users who need cutting edge stuff from a
latest release, where we install manually specific to these 1-2 users. 

If we look at the overall numbers, I would say that those users who need
stability more than the newest features are the majority of our users. 

Andreas 

On 2018-12-04 10:54, Hernán wrote:

> Thanks Bo for a very clear and to me very accurate picture of a 'typical' enterprise QGIS deployment.
> 
> H.
> 
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> Ämne: Re: [Qgis-user] User question of the month
> Från: Bo Victor Thomsen 
> Till: anitagraser at gmx.at
> Kopia: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> 
> Hi Anita - 
> 
> Thanks for the effort in trying to establish user and upgrading patterns for QGIS :-) 
> 
> I think however, that the answers ar skewed, because the "enterprise" segment of users  probably doesn't even know about this mailing list or "Planet QGIS", so the answers mostly represent "power" users. 
> 
> .  
> 
> My own experience with enterprise rollouts of QGIS - and I have made a couple of these - tells me that your average IT-department prefer a yearly rollout, might accept a major upgrade every 6 months and will absolutely *refuse* anything on a timescale lesser than 4 months. YMMV  
> 
> Enterprise users are roughly split in two groups. 25% are curious and embraces new versions. The other 75 % doesn't give a flying fig about new versions and functions as long the current version are stable and have a tool-set that covers the conceived needs for the individual user. Again, YMMV 
> 
> Just my 2 cents 
> 
> Kind regards 
> 
> Bo Victor Thomsen 
> 
> Den man. 3. dec. 2018 kl. 22.24 skrev Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at>: 
> 
> Dear users, 
> 
> The answers to the user question of November have now been published: http://blog.qgis.org/2018/12/03/user-question-of-the-month-dec-18-answers-from-nov/ 
> 
> We also have a new question for December: what you think QGIS.ORG [1] should focus on in 2019? https://goo.gl/forms/2xOP1rSz8AaDCCi02 
> 
> Regards, 
> Anita 
> 
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 10:23 PM Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote: 
> 
> Dear users,  
> 
> QGIS 2.18 is the third LTR since we started this effort back in 2015 and next year will see the first LTR of QGIS 3. On this occasion, we want to learn more about our users and which versions of QGIS they use. Therefore, we invite you to our QGIS user question of the month: https://goo.gl/forms/m27b3W477fFNYtxg1 
> 
> Regards, 
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