[Qgis-developer] Help us plan for QGIS 3.0

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

On 09-02-16 01:01, Nyall Dawson wrote:
> 
> On 9 Feb 2016 10:36 AM, "Larry Shaffer" <larrys at dakotacarto.com
> <mailto:larrys at dakotacarto.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> How about this:
>>
>> * Release 2.14 as an LTR (on schedule), but with the option of having
> new, heavily unit-tested and vetted features still available for pushing
>> * Skip a 2.16 release
>> * Release 3.0 version 8 months after 2.14
>>
>> This would allow cleaning up of the PRs and QEPs that apply to the 2.x
> branch, but not tie up the overall dev community with another full 2.x
> point release. There will be 2.14.x releases, but possibly with an
> understanding of when new features were introduced, e.g. tags >= 2.14.x
> have new features.
>>
>> It would also offer a full 8 months of work on porting everything to
> 2.x to 3.0, and allow the community to be well informed ahead of the
> impending change.
>>
>> Please keep in mind, for the Mac user community, the sooner a 3.0 beta
> release is available the better, as Qt4 has very fragile support for
> building on the current OS version and may not build at all on future ones.
> 
> Larry - check the PSC list. The plan's been announced there.

To be exact: there is/was a draft plan there, which will be spread wider
very soon. But have a look if you are curious :-)

Regards,

Richard