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Hi Anita,<br>
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I know that I don't need to update every release.<br>
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By stressful - I don't only mean myself as a governmental user - but
us all (the people involved with the QGIS project). For you as well.
Why do we have to release so often? Aside from web browsers - I
don't know a single open source project that releases so often.<br>
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In reality, there wasn't a single release that did not need a patch
release shortly after.<br>
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By concentrating on fewer releases we could invest more resources in
quality assurance, testing, etc.<br>
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Who really needs a release every four months?<br>
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We also put stress on our users - if they don't upgrade every
release - they risk that their project doesn't load properly
anymore. There are many cases where the user tried to upgrade - say
from 2.2 to 2.8 and ran into troubles because he skipped 2.4 and
2.6.<br>
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I think the time based releases are a very good idea - but to
release every four months is too often.<br>
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Andreas<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12.10.2015 15:24, Anita Graser
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 1:47 PM,
Andreas Neumann <span dir="ltr"><<a
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QGIS user in government (you could also replace this by a
company or other professional users) I find the 4 month
release schedule not ideal - and quite stressful. I would
rather prefer a half-year or yearly release and then
proper bug-fix releases.<br>
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-size:small;display:inline">Could you
clarify why this issue is not addressed by the current
LTR approach? Just sticking to the LTR </div>
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style="font-size:small;display:inline">versions (maybe
not 2.8.0/2.14.0 but instead 2.8.1/2.14.1) shouldn't be
stressful.</div>
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