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

[Luca Manganelli]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
> 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.

"more bugfixed" is not always true. We had issues with 1.8.0 and 2.2.0
and we refused to use them in our organization due to critical bugs
that are fixed in newer version, but they have sometimes introduced
other.

So, I believe that in production environment the most stable (!=
latest) version is used. For almost 2 years we used 1.7.4, for me the
most stable QGIS version in earth (more than 2.4 and 2.6!).