[Qgis-developer] Four month cycle too fast

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi,

At the Swiss QGIS user meeting yesterday there were some discussions
whether people can cope with the 4 month release schedule and there were
a number of users who said that this way too fast for them. By the time
they could properly test a release, the next release is already there.

Bigger organizations (government organizations and bigger companies)
have to test a release, package it with IT, test again. They often can't
install QGIS themselves (don't have installation privileges) but have to
ask IT to do it for them. This is a time-consuming process.

I would propose to try a six month release cycle with two months feature
freeze for testing (see also my previous mail about a request for more
time for testing/bug fixing). Even a yearly release cycle would be fine,
if there could be a bug-fix release.

PostgreSQL has a yearly release cycle and it works really well I think -
both for them as a project and for us as customers.

Andreas