[Qgis-developer] Stress about release plans

[Bo Victor Thomsen]

Paolo -

Your answer is not rude, but it's not quite correct. My "master plan" 
would simply shift 2 months every year from development of new features 
to bug-fixing. This alone won't cost any extra resources.  It would 
simply give a large time window for bug-fixing/testing/documenting on a 
yearly basis.

As it is now there is _no_ version of QGIS that's relatively free of 
aggravating bugs (ex. bugs introduced in existing, formerly working 
parts of QGIS) . This makes QGIS a "hard sell" in precisely the 
organisations that might support/donate to QGIS development. This is my 
actual experience when I - as a GIS consultant - tries to get someone to 
use QGIS on a large scale as a replacement for either ArcGIS or 
MapInfo.  They don't want new fancy features  3 times a year - they want 
a yearly stable, relatively bug free version where it possible to add 
new features if needed.

It a chicken/egg problem. We need to have some stable, relatively bug 
free version of QGIS with predictable (and somewhat slow ) release 
cycles before it's acceptable in large organisations (with money to 
spend on development/bug fixing). "My" release cycle would give a chance 
to remedy some of the problems without extra costs and still give 
developers a chance to add new features on a continuing basis.

Regards
Bo Victor Thomsen
Denmark



Den 22-07-2014 17:45, Paolo Cavallini skrev:
> Il 22/07/2014 17:17, Bo Victor Thomsen ha scritto:
>
>> My suggestion is that*one* of the three version cycles is replaced with the following:
> Sorry Bo if I appear rude, but good ideas are not what we are missing.
> Manpower (~=money) is what is missing to implement them.
> Therefore: funding welcome, be sure we can devise a suitable strategy to solve these
> problems once we have suitable resources.
> All the best, and thanks for your thoughts.
>