[Qgis-developer] Release plans

[Nathan Woodrow]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net> wrote:

> Announcing source release should have a link to the source tarball.
>
> Binary releases might even not need to be announced by the qgis team,
> as serious package managers conveniently implement those announces with
> user popups and the like...
>

If you know what a source tarball is you are not a normal user.

>From the outside, and it doesn't matter who makes the packages, people come
to our site to get the installer, if it's not there it looks bad on us.
 Saying "just announce the source and let someone else worry about binary"
is a disservice to our users.

99% of our users wouldn't even know how to even build QGIS, and why should
they, it's not their job.  It is ours, at least not for the major platforms.

It's like saying you can't say "apples are ripe!" because then people get
> frustrated by not finding them on their supermarket shelf.


This is incorrect.  The "apples are ripe" is current master after freeze,
might be some bugs still but it's pretty good.  A better compare is saying
"Extra! We have apples ready to go,....*goes to shop*.tomorrow". We are the
shop.

Having dealt with people confused about the release my opinion is this is
bad publicity for the project. I'm not just making it up it's from
experience and having to deal with it.

- Nathan
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