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

[Matthias Kuhn]

On 10/20/2016 11:12 AM, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
> 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

Sorry, my bad. Realized that 2.20 would be in line.

But that would mean a triple branch strategy for another 4 months,
putting more load on devs. Especially when it's about releasing 3.2 and
2.20 as LTR at the same time. I can't actually imagine we've got enough
manpower to do both jobs well at the same time.

I think LTR clients just have to realize that it's fewer features they
trade fewer features for stability.

Matthias