[QGIS-Developer] Status of 3.44 becoming LTR?

[Greg Troxel]

Andreas Neumann <andreas at qgis.org> writes:

> With the switch from QGIS 3.x to 4.x we are kind of breaking the rules
> around our otherwise strict schedules. This means that we skipped one
> release altogether and this also means that 3.44.x will be the last 3.x
> version and we decided it makes sense that the last 3.x version will
> eventually become LTR. I hope this makes sense.

Yes, that makes sense and I understood the general plan.  What I was not
clear about was whether, today, 3.44 *was* the LTR or just *is going to
be*.  But from reading the roadmap, I convinced myself that today, 3.40
is LTR, and in late February, 3.44 will become LTR.  Confusingly, 3.44
proclaims itself LTR in the splash screen, and it sort of is, kind of
like crown prince.

> QGIS 4.x (currently 3.99.x) is still in early stages, but already usable.
> Plugins will have to update to work in QGIS 4.x. So I would wait a couple
> of 4.x releases to use it in production.

I guess that's really separate from the blessing of 4.2 as LTR.   Then,
once can presume that 4.2 is stable, but that doesn't mean plugins are
ok.   I guess every person/org has to assess what plugins they care
about, test them, and if issues either fix them, pay someone else to
fix, wait, or decide they don't care quite so much.