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

[Mathieu Pellerin]

Fantastic, thank you.

On Fri, Jan 24, 2020, 15:48 Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:

> I can do it.
>
> Regards,
> Anita
>
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 12:15 AM Mathieu Pellerin <nirvn.asia at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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