[Qgis-developer] Help us plan for QGIS 3.0

[Martin Dobias]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 11:38 PM, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 January 2016 at 09:03, Tim Sutton <tim at qgis.org> wrote:
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>> Dear QGIS Developers
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>> For some time now we have been talking about moving to 3.0. The PSC is looking for proposals on how to manage the process of moving to QGIS 3.0. For a little more context please see the blog post I have made [1]. Once we have all the proposals in (please see the example from Matthias Kuhn at the bottom of the aforementioned post and keep it nice & simple)  we will collate them and then select one (or a hybrid of several) and share those plans with the broader community. I will make all the proposals publicly available and we will make the final decision in consultation with the developer community.
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> Great summary Tim! Thanks for helping push this along.
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> It's probably no surprise (since Matthias and I have spoken at length
> regarding this), but I'm in favour of Proposal 1. I just don't believe
> we have the resources to support any form of parallel development like
> proposal 2 requires.

I am also in favour of proposal 1 (release 2.16 and then 3.0) as it
has a good balance in terms of how much time in advance 3.0 is
announced, how much time is there to adjust to py3/qt5, and how much
extra time can be used for API breaking changes.

Cheers
Martin