[QGIS-Developer] Fwd: Urgent: Remove windows 3.10.2 installer from site

[Stefan Steiger]

You made a mistake translating/editing:
„the important of“ ==> „the importance of“

As such, we cannot stress enough the important of updating now.
==>
As such, we cannot stress enough the importance of updating now.


Posting that would be embarrassing



Von: QGIS-Developer [mailto:qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] Im Auftrag von Mathieu Pellerin
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 22. Januar 2020 10:58
An: Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>; qgis-developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>
Betreff: Re: [QGIS-Developer] Fwd: Urgent: Remove windows 3.10.2 installer from site

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
_______________________________________________
QGIS-Developer mailing list
QGIS-Developer at lists.osgeo.org<mailto: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

--
Please excuse my brevity.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/attachments/20200122/a74bd5c7/attachment.html>