[Qgis-developer] Release schedule discussion - again

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Lauri,

On Wed, 14. Oct 2015 at 14:59:11 +0300, Lauri Kajan wrote:
> If I haven't understood completely wrong the initial LTR releases have new
> features just like regular releases, but no new features are added to bug
> fix release of course.

Correct.

> What I ment was that basically now freezed 2.12 will become the LTR in next
> February after all its features have been tested the next four months in
> 2.12. And no new features are added to LTR after 2.12 release.

That is (was?) the plan.


> This was not a proposal but just a thought how we could avoid bugs and
> crashes that are caused by brand new features.

Then I didn't understand what you are proposing.  Are you suggesting to let the
LTR and the regular release diverge indefinitely?   That something we (I?)
would try to avoid - we (I?) don't have time to maintain two versions.
Backports will get harder and harder - and if we switch to Qt5 it might get
impossible to maintain the old LTR any longer anyway.  It it needs to be
replaced by an newer version.


Jürgen

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