[Qgis-developer] What's the purpose of an LTR?

[G. Allegri]

Thanks Nyall and Andreas,
I missed the point that an LTR can have updated releases, i.e. 2.8 download
links can be updated until February 2016, right?

giovanni

2015-01-21 9:27 GMT+01:00 Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>:

>  Hi Giovanni,
>
> The idea is to invest more in bugfixing and bugfix releases for the LTR
> release. If a major problem in 2.8 LTR is found and 2.10 is already out,
> there would still be another bug fix release for 2.8 LTR. LTR is for one
> year of support in bug fixing.
>
> QGIS PSC and QGIS-CH may also decide to invest more money into bug fixing
> of a LTR release.
>
> Andreas
>
> On 21.01.2015 09:24, G. Allegri wrote:
>
> Could you help me to understand what distinguishes a normal QGIS release
> and an LTR? In other sw the LTR (LTS) guarantees long term maintanance,
> backporting fixes, etc. but in the QGIS lifecycle a release is fixed, so
> what's the difference for the end user between 2.6 and 2.8? Maybe that it's
> download link will be mantained for a longer time? :)
>
> giovanni
>
>
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