[Qgis-developer] QEP - Proposal for QGIS 3.0 after 2.14

[Nyall Dawson]

On 24 Oct 2015 23:17, "Jürgen E." <jef at norbit.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Matthias,
>
> On Sat, 24. Oct 2015 at 13:45:02 +0200, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
> > Can we not just develop in a separate branch, merge features back into
master
> > whenever they are ready. Be it before or after release of 2.14 LTR.
>
> Right, sounds like what I intended to say ;)
>
> > I am afraid that working on two separate branches will effectively lead
to
> > imporant work being done twice. Bugfixes forgotten to be ported...
>
> Sure, that's the risk.  I'm also not sure why we have make prediction
what the
> we'll find when porting to py3/pyqt5 and use those to make plans.
>
> > Why not:
> >
> >  * Branch off one py3/pyqt5 development branch now.
> >  * Introduce a compile time switch to control if python2 or python3 code
> >    binaries should be compiled
>
> And when we have that, we actually know how large the impact of py3/pyqt5
is -
> and can decide if it's better to merge the branch back to master before
2.14 or
> after.  If it's feasible to have a version that supports py2/3, pyqt4/5
and
> Qt4/5 it's before 2.14 and otherwise it's after.

But keeping the possibility of merging the branch before 2.14 means the api
is locked... That's not ideal, it'll create a lot of (unneeded) extra work.
I'd say allow breaks in the branch, merge after 2.14.

Nyall

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