[Qgis-developer] Stability (2.8 LTS) vs development (3.0), a proposed way forward

Paolo Cavallini cavallini at faunalia.it
Mon Nov 10 00:42:52 PST 2014


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Il 10/11/2014 09:31, Martin Dobias ha scritto:

> really valued much beyond the above scores, but it's nice to see 
> people get excited about such geeky stuff.

Hi all,
I hate cooling down the enthusiasm, but I really see LTS as an empty
word. To me, the whole issue boils down to having resources to do
serious backporting of fixes. Without that, LTS will have no practical
effect, as users will use the latest, more bugfixed version.
This is exactly what has happened in the past.
So from my point of view what we need is not +something, but funders
supporting backporting. I'd be against spending our limited core
funding for this.
In short: power users, if you need stability, please set aside some
funds to stably support a backporter, year round, and you'll have your
much sought after long term stability.
All the best.

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Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html
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