[Qgis-developer] Plans after friday's release?

[Paolo Cavallini]

Il 20/10/2016 09:56, Neumann, Andreas ha scritto:

>> I am in favor of shooting down any 2.20 plans and fully focus on 3.0 to
>> reduce the backporting overhead and improve dev-time and user-awareness
>> towards 3.0.
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> +1

Also +1

>> We could potentially also allow some non-intrusive features to land in
>> there (some plans regarding this already exist).
>>  
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> +1 again.

agreed

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> I'd also like to revisit the discussion about ending 2.x with an LT version.
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> It just seems illogical to me, to not end 2.x with an LT version. It is
> kind of a waste of resources if we continue to backport stuff to 2.14
> only and loose out on the many useful new features that were introduced
> in 2.16 and 2.18. Think about all the nice things, like multi-attribute
> search, multi-attribute editing, forms/widget improvements, and many
> more - that won't reach the masses, because they are not in an LT
> release for at least another year!
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> Let's be more flexible and allow ourself to break the strict rule that
> an LT version can only appear once a year, every third release. Rules
> are here to break where useful/necessary.

It makes sense to me - let's see, if 2.18 will be a good, stable version
we can promote it to LTR.

All the best, and thanks.

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