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

[Matthias Kuhn]

On 10/20/2016 11:04 AM, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> 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

What's the advantage of this? 2.20 also wouldn't be on the normal LTR
schedule (2.22 would be) and the two requests for LTR and for adding
features are probably the destiny of every last-of-major-release.

Matthias