[QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-psc] QGIS LTR releases -- is it time to pull the plug?

[Nyall Dawson]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2021 at 21:00, Bo Victor Thomsen
<bo.victor.thomsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>

> Whatever that's decided regarding the LTR, I personally still will be a staunch supporter of QGIS. But please don't throw the baby out with the bathwater without due consideration and without trying alternative solutions.

Just to clarify: my personal view is also that the LTR is extremely
important for QGIS, especially for enterprise deployments of QGIS. I'd
hate to see it go! I also realise that providing the LTR comes with an
implicit promise of stability... every regression in the LTR hurts our
users, and a release-breaking bug this late in the LTR cycle is a
clear indication that something is wrong and we need to fix our
processes.

In short, I'm personally hoping that the conversation stays
constructive and that the outcome is a better-supported, more
trustworthy LTR release. (Again, my personal view is that we won't be
able to achieve this without a funding drive to start paying the
packagers/maintainers/QA teams to ensure that LTR releases aren't just
a "side thing" for them, but something which is always prioritised and
financially justified!)

Nyall

>
> Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards
>
> Bo Victor Thomsen
>
> Den 16-11-2021 kl. 09:22 skrev Alessandro Pasotti:
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 8:50 AM Marco Bernasocchi <marco at qgis.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Anita, Hi Nyall, Hi All
>> I think that it is a good idea to allocate the first half hour (and more if needed) in tonight's budget meeting to this very pressing subject.
>> Nyall, thanks a lot for your analysis, we'll use it as discussion base.
>>
>> I extended the meeting invitation from 18:00 to 19:30.
>>
>> See you later
>> Marco
>>
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> thinking about how to possibly prevent this to happen again I think that the manual testing cycles as proposed with https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-psc/2020-December/009186.html could help in identifying biggest issues before a release.
>
> I think we should consider the possibility of investing in that direction.
>
> Kind regards.
>
> --
> Alessandro Pasotti
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