[QGIS-Developer] Limiting 3.44 backports?

[Greg Troxel]

Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, 10 Jun 2026 at 11:22, Greg Troxel via QGIS-Developer <
> qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>>
>> Nyall Dawson via QGIS-Developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> writes:
>>
>> > I noticed a lot of bug fixes aren't getting the 3.44 backport label.
>> > Is this an intentional decision now? Are we at the stage where we
>> > should be limiting 3.44 backports to critical fixes only?
>>
>> 1) Have we annnounced: 4.0.2 is the standard approach.  If you haven't
>> upgraded from 3.44.x to 4.0.2, you're behind.  In other words, when
>> someone say "I want to run qgis but I don't know what version - tell
>> me", what do we say?
>
> No, we very strongly say "stick with 3.44"!

I thought so.  Then IMHO anything that's a bugfix should be getting
backported.  (Up-to-date, following guidance) users are on 3.44.

>> 2) Have we blessed a new LTR?
>
> No. (And I would suggest we DON'T tag 4.2 as LTR... but that's a completely
> different discussion 😜 )

Indeed.  I guess we should defer that until 4.2.0 is out and we are
about to tag 4.2.1, as I understand it.  A lot can happen between now
and then.