[QGIS-Developer] "Early Adopter" release

[Patrick Dunford]

Hi thanks for your comment

Whilst aware of issues with 3.x I have migrated most of my projects to 
it as it seems to be stable enough for everyday work. I am considering 
installing the development build onto one of my computers.

I also migrated all the shapefiles to geopackage as this appears to be 
stable enough for production work as well. Since there have been 
problems lately using shapefiles over a SMB network we hope the 
Geopackage database works more stably over a network.

So far so good - just aware we don't seem to be having much conversation 
on the redmine site lately :):):)


On 07/07/18 19:17, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
>
> QGIS 3.x has major changes under the hood:
>
> - Change from qt4 to qt5
>
> - QGIS internal API changes
>
> - Change from Python 2 to Python 3
>
> - Completely rewritten: QGIS server, Print composer/layouts, Processing
>
> - All Python plugins have to be changed and adopted to the above 
> listed changes
>
> With so many changes it is only expected that new issues and problems 
> arise with the introduction of QGIS 3. That's why QGIS 3 is named 
> "early adopter release". On the other hand the devs, and also 
> co-funded by QGIS.ORG, invested a lot of time in fixing issues. And 
> maybe you have noticed that QGIS 3.2 doesn't have this label any more.
>
> Version 3.4 is planned as an LT release. 3.4 is scheduled for end of 
> October. See 
> https://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/development/roadmap.html#release-schedule
>
> So with 3.4 we expect to be on  a stable, at least as good (but most 
> likely much better) than 2.18, which is our previous LT release. If 
> you are cautious and need to rely on stable versions, I recommend 
> rolling out 3.4 after one or two bug fix releases, so maybe at the end 
> of year 2018.
>
> However, I personally used version 3.x for quite a long time and I am 
> quite happy with it. Also note, that you can always install and use 
> QGIS 2.x and 3.x in parallel.
>
> ---------------
>
> As to your other question: "when do you expect to have made major 
> inroads into the bugs backlog":
>
> This is a hard question. The bug queue will never be empty and always 
> contain open issues. On the other hand, there are also issues in the 
> queue that are hard or impossible to reproduce and the bug reporter 
> did not provide enough information to fix the issues.
>
> The QGIS.ORG project is investing a five-figure Euro investment 
> (usually 15-40k €) for each release to pay a few core developers to 
> fix the most pressing issues. We do realize that this is not enough, 
> but it is the best we can do with the limited funds. To help improve 
> the situation, we encourage users of QGIS to do either of the following:
>
> - help improve the quality of bug reports (really, it can help a lot 
> if bug reporters do an effort to describe the issues well enough to 
> reproduce, including data and a project file
>
> - become a sponsor (see 
> https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/sponsorship/sponsorship.html#qgis-sponsorship-program 
> and 
> https://www.qgis.org/en/site/about/sponsorship.html#sponsors-and-donors 
> for our list of current sponsors, ideally with an annual renewal 
> commitment
>
> - become a one-time donor
>
> - establish a support contract with a company, preferable with a 
> company that has core QGIS commiters. See 
> https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/commercial_support.html#core-contributors 
> - with such a contract you can prioritize
>
> - hire a developers to specifically fix the issues you have (or if you 
> have the skills, you can fix issues yourself)
>
> Or any combination of the above. If a large enough number of users 
> supports us in one or more of the above ways, I am sure we can keep 
> QGIS in a good shape for many years to come.
>
> It is the users who decide about the fate of QGIS. If the users stop 
> to support QGIS, QGIS will die. If enough users will support QGIS, it 
> will thrive, as I think it did in the past couple years.
>
> Hope this information helps,
>
> Greetings from Andreas
> (QGIS PSC member)
>
>
>
> 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
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> QGIS-Developer mailing list
>> QGIS-Developer at lists.osgeo.org
>> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
>
> _______________________________________________
> QGIS-Developer mailing list
> QGIS-Developer at lists.osgeo.org
> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
> Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer