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Hi Admire,<br>
Hope you are well.<br>
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I agree that too many releases per year is not good.<br>
Both from an deployment/implementation point of view, and a
perception of their stability or "need".<br>
<br>
My mind therefore tends for towards 2 per year.<br>
<br>
Hope this helps.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Zoltan<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2019/03/20 11:51, admire via
qgis-za-user wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:4d7a15b1-5e9d-70d2-0280-e4c7c06880db@gmail.com">Hi all
<br>
<br>
The QGIS conference in Coruna has just completed and there has
been a lot of issues discussed and one of the major sticking
points was the release cycle overview. The Swiss user group
requested
<br>
<br>
the slowing down of the release cycle from 3 times per year to 2
times per year. They cited the following reasons:
<br>
<br>
* QGIS has reached a level of maturity where there aren't so many
featured missing to justify the fast release pace in order to
allow missing features to reach users quickly.
<br>
<br>
* Many organizations can't keep up with the fast pace of QGIS
release, meaning the many QGIS releases are tested by fewer people
who live on the "cutting edge".
<br>
<br>
* It reduces the pressure on developers, release managers,
documenters, packagers and system administration to roll out QGIS
in their organizations.
<br>
<br>
* The time window for testing of new releases is really short,
which results in often unusable 3.x.0 releases. In reality, many
organizations have to wait for two or three bugfix releases until
the major release becomes usable for them.
<br>
<br>
Another issue that was discussed was the difficulty of users
upgrading the point releases, especially for windows. A typical
example being the LTR version where users would install 2.18.0 and
maintain this until migrating to the next LTR version whilst the
2.18.x went all the way to 2.18.21
<br>
<br>
<font color="#ff6600"><b>What is your take on the issues listed
above?
</b></font><br>
<br>
Regards
<br>
<br>
Admire
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