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

[Sandro Santilli]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 11:01:47AM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 10/20/2016 10:43 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> > Il 20/10/2016 09:56, Neumann, Andreas ha scritto:
> >> I'd also like to revisit the discussion about ending 2.x with an LT version.
> >>  
> >> 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!
> >>  
> >> 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.
> 
> Or make 2.20 the last LTR.

+1

Also considering the willingness to inject more features into
"2.18" (which should be freezed by now).

A 2.20 would also respect the normal cycle, right ?

--strk;