[QGIS-Developer] "Early Adopter" release

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi again, Patrick,

Some other thoughts:

I recently visited the SWISS PGDAY (organized by Swiss PostgreSQL user 
group). The very interesting keynote was by Bruce Momjian - a long time 
core contributor of PostgreSQL.

The title of the keynote was "Will PostgreSQL live forever?"

Some answers to this hard to answer question are:

- Forever, is a long time ;-)

- It is up to the users and developers to decide whether PostgreSQL 
stays relevant or will be made irrelevant by other

- there is no management that decides it. It is the users who decide it.

- the good news is: as Open Source organizations we are not at the mercy 
of financial investors or have to react to quarterly statements. This 
makes us, much much more likely to live longer than commercial alternatives.

- commercial companies: if the owners/investors got enough money out of 
the product they may loose interest or decide that a new feature a 
customer demands costs only money and not bring enough profit. So, it is 
the owners and the management of the product who decide what gets into 
the product, whereas with OpenSource the users and developers have more 
power over such decisions.

- the other good news is: neither PostgreSQL nor QGIS can be bought by 
another company (only the companies of the core contributors can be 
bought). Luckily, in neither project a single company has too much power 
over development of the projects. If one company ceases or is bought and 
shut-down, there are plenty of other devs and companies who can take 
over - if the users want that.

- in worst case scenarios, projects can still be forked

Greetings,

Andreas


Am 07.07.2018 um 06:20 schrieb Patrick Dunford:
> Can someone please explain to me why Qgis 3.0 banner is named "early 
> adopter release"
>
> In other words what stage of development is Qgis 3.0 expected to be at 
> in terms of user experience.
>
> As a related question how many bugs do you expect to fix for each 
> release and at what point do you expect to have made major inroads 
> into the bugs backlog.
>
> Thanks
>
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