[QGIS-Developer] Fwd: Urgent: Remove windows 3.10.2 installer from site
Matthias Kuhn
matthias at opengis.ch
Wed Jan 22 03:47:02 PST 2020
How about
- Waiting for https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/33971
- Releasing 3.10.3
- Announce on twitter, blog, news panel
Clear cut for everyone (including those 95% of our users not following
[qgis on] twitter)
Matthias
On 1/22/20 12:39 PM, Anita Graser wrote:
> Is it time to send an update on Twitter yet? I don't see new
> installers at https://qgis.org/downloads/
>
> Regards,
> Anita
>
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 11:08 AM Mathieu Pellerin
> <nirvn.asia at gmail.com <mailto:nirvn.asia at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I think the QGIS twitter account already mentioned that the 3.10.2
> installer had been retired due to issues and re-build.
>
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 5:07 PM DelazJ <delazj at gmail.com
> <mailto:delazj at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks Mathieu. Should it be 3.10.2 or 3.10.3? Asking because
> those who have already downloaded the broken 3.10.2 may not
> think to update.
>
> Regards,
> Harrissou
>
> Le mer. 22 janv. 2020 à 11:05, Mathieu Pellerin
> <nirvn.asia at gmail.com <mailto:nirvn.asia at gmail.com>> a écrit :
>
> Matthias,
>
> Good idea.
>
> Math
>
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 5:02 PM Matthias Kuhn
> <matthias at opengis.ch <mailto:matthias at opengis.ch>> wrote:
>
> Hi Mathieu,
>
> Thanks a lot. It reads very well!
>
> Something that I'd like to add is that in case of
> still finding a bug, users should file issues and to
> mention proximity of LTR replacement.
>
> If you still happen to find QGIS behaving in an
> unexpected way, please let us know on
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues
> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues&sa=D&source=hangouts&ust=1579773605204000&usg=AFQjCNHP21SO7MPYwrn023vHOeZwMUBKuQ>
> as always. We are very happy that QGIS 3.10 is now in
> shape to replace 3.4 as LTR in a month time.
>
> Bests
> Matthias
>
>
> On 1/22/20 10:58 AM, Mathieu Pellerin wrote:
>> Paolo, here's the draft blog post:
>>
>> *Public Service Announcement: Update to the latest
>> point release now*
>> ------
>> QGIS users who have adopted the 3.10 version when
>> initially released at the end of October 2019 have
>> likely noticed a sharp drop in reliability. The
>> underlying issues have now been addressed in 3.10.2,
>> all users are advised to update *now*.
>>
>> When QGIS 3.10 was first released in the end of
>> October 2019, a pair of libraries – namely GDAL and
>> PROJ – were updated to their next-generation
>> versions. The advantages are plenty: GeoPDF export[1]
>> support, more accurate coordinate transformation,
>> etc. For those interested, more technical information
>> on this is available here[2].
>>
>> The update of these crucial libraries led to a number
>> of regressions. While we expected some issues to
>> arise, the seriousness of the disruption caught us
>> off guard. Yet, it was also somewhat inevitable: QGIS
>> is the first large GIS project to expose these
>> next-generation libraries to the masses. The large
>> number of QGIS users across the globe were
>> essentially stress testing both new code within QGIS
>> as well as the libraries themselves.
>>
>> Thanks to dedicated users taking time to file in
>> report and the community helping out as well as our
>> project sponsors for allowing us to fund development
>> time, developers have been able to fix all known
>> regressions in both in QGIS as well as underlying
>> GDAL and PROJ libraries, benefiting a large number of
>> open source projects.
>>
>> As a result of this collective effort by the
>> community, QGIS 3.10.2 is now back to being the
>> reliable and stable GIS software we all love. As
>> such, we cannot stress enough the important of
>> updating now.
>>
>> Once again, thanks to our community of testers,
>> sponsors, and developers for their countless hours
>> and efforts in making QGIS better.
>>
>> Happy mapping!
>>
>> [1]
>> https://north-road.com/2019/09/03/qgis-3-10-loves-geopdf/
>> [2] https://gdalbarn.com/
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 9:56 AM Paolo Cavallini
>> <cavallini at faunalia.it
>> <mailto:cavallini at faunalia.it>> wrote:
>>
>> Fully agreed. Mathieu, would you like to write it?
>> Thanks.
>>
>> On 21 January 2020 06:39:08 GMT+04:00, Mathieu
>> Pellerin <nirvn.asia at gmail.com
>> <mailto:nirvn.asia at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> +100 on all that's been said here.
>>
>> Also, once 3.10.2 is updated to include the
>> updated packages & above-referred fix, I'd
>> suggest writing a QGIS.org blog post to
>> inform users of the worthiness of updating to
>> 3.10.2(.2) *ASAP*, and expand a bit on why
>> 3.10.0/.1 were such rough releases. We can
>> finish the post by thanking users that have
>> reported bugs (an inevitable nightmare to go
>> through as QGIS was exposing brand new
>> GDAL3/PROJ6 versions to the masses). IMHO, we
>> should not skip this communication to our users.
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 7:27 AM Nyall Dawson
>> <nyall.dawson at gmail.com
>> <mailto:nyall.dawson at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Also, we better wait for a fix for
>> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/33902
>> (incoming)...
>>
>> Gosh, will the nightmare ever end...
>> Let's agree never to change
>> anything in gdal or proj or qgis ever
>> again ;)
>>
>> Nyall
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: Nyall Dawson
>> <nyall.dawson at gmail.com
>> <mailto:nyall.dawson at gmail.com>>
>> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 at 06:28
>> Subject: Urgent: Remove windows 3.10.2
>> installer from site
>> To: qgis-developer
>> <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
>> <mailto:qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>>
>>
>>
>> Can we please remove the 3.10.2 installer
>> from the website as a matter
>> of urgency? This installer was released
>> using the older gdal 3.0.2 and
>> proj 6.2 versions, which directly lead to
>> crashes and reprojection
>> failures in QGIS.
>>
>> QGIS ********************SHOULD NEVER
>> EVER*********************** be
>> used with gdal >= 3 and gdal < 3.0.3 or
>> proj >6 and proj < 6.3.0.
>>
>> This combination is a world of hurt for
>> users :(
>>
>> Tickets filed at
>> https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/618,
>> and
>> https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/617,
>> and later today I'm going
>> to commit cmake blocks which will
>> completely prevent compilation under
>> the affected gdal/proj versions.
>>
>> Nyall
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