[Qgis-developer] Plans for next QGIS releases

Vincent Picavet (ml) vincent.ml at oslandia.com
Tue Feb 21 00:25:56 PST 2017


Hi Paolo,

Please excuse me if I missed something, but I am quite surprised, not by
the decisions themselves, but the process of these decisions.

I have seen no call for meeting, no message to the list to gather
advices, no mention to voting members neither of this IRC meeting happening.
The topic is really important and has deep consequences for all of our
users, funders, developers. The least we can do is ask them for their
advice and feedback. This kind of autocratic top-bottom decisions is
definitely not the way I would expect the QGIS community to behave.

Sorry for the rant, and again I may have missed something ( but I
re-checked all emails from PSC, dev and users ML, my #qgis logs, and saw
nothing). Let's keep the community involved in decision processes and
take care about how we communicate together, please.

Vincent

On 20/02/2017 11:17, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Hi all,
> during a fast and productive IRC meeting today we have come out with a
> proposal for the management of current and future versions of QGIS:
> 
> * retire 2.14 in June 2017
> * 2.18 becomes LTR from June 2017 to 2018
> * 3.0 feature freeze in July 2017
> * release 3.0 in Sept 2017
> * release 3.2 as next LTR in release 3.0 + 4 Months (eta June 2018).
> 
> Of course we know that some of you will have different preferences and
> constraints, but we believe this is the best compromise we can reach
> now. Please let us know if you have strong opposition to this, or good
> argument to change. Nothing is carved in stone, but it will be good to
> give our users and devs a perspective on what they can expect.
> 
> All the best.
> 



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