[QGIS-Developer] LTR management [was Re: Delaying 3.10.1?]

[Nathan Woodrow]

Just have to make sure we communicate this via the blog and why.

On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 10:38 AM Mathieu Pellerin <nirvn.asia at gmail.com>
wrote:

> +1 to end 3.4 cycle a few months early too.
>
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 05:57 Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> +1 on dropping support early as the risk is large on breaking the users
>> experience with a LTR
>>
>> On Thu., 28 Nov. 2019, 8:55 am Even Rouault, <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> > I think the issues are deeper then the crashes/projection failures
>>> > fixed by the GDAL/proj cherry-picked commits.
>>>
>>> Yes, actually QGIS 3.4 should not be affected by the PROJ fix, because
>>> it
>>> uses the old pj_transform() API with doesn't trigger that code path at
>>> all.
>>> But it *is* affected by exportToProj4() no longer returning +datum or
>>> +towgs84
>>> in cases where it used to be, which basically makes working with
>>> anything !=
>>> WGS 84 fundamentaly broken. The only "fix" would be to backport the
>>> fully
>>> fledged PROJ 6 support of 3.10 which is obviously unreasonable to do in
>>> 3.4
>>>
>>> > think we SHOULD drop
>>> > Windows LTR support early rather than releasing a 3.4 build based on
>>> > proj6/gdal3.
>>>
>>> +1
>>>
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