[QGIS-Developer] Fwd: Urgent: Remove windows 3.10.2 installer from site
Mathieu Pellerin
nirvn.asia at gmail.com
Thu Jan 23 16:15:56 PST 2020
Jürgen, thanks for the successful re-release of 3.10.2.
Paolo, Anita, who is in a position to publish the drafted post on the blog?
On Thu, Jan 23, 2020, 10:59 Mathieu Pellerin <nirvn.asia at gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 to that plan. We're 33% done already since the blocking PR has been
> merged.
>
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 6:47 PM Matthias Kuhn <matthias at opengis.ch> wrote:
>
>> 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>
>> 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> 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>
>>>> a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>> Matthias,
>>>>>
>>>>> Good idea.
>>>>>
>>>>> Math
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 5:02 PM Matthias Kuhn <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> 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> 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> 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>
>>>>>>>>> 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>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 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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>>>>>>> Please excuse my brevity.
>>>>>>>
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