[Qgis-psc] Vote about release plan

[Nathan Woodrow]

> What is the main problem in breaking APIs? AFAIK is the need to fix the
plugins.

Not just plugins but every script that anyone has written against the QGIS
API which can be a lot of internal scripts and processes.  It really comes
down to just a pain if it's not justified or needed.   If we are forced to
Python 3 and PyQt5 then it's a different story because we didn't really
have much choice but all platforms will have to move it will be a nightmare
having to maintain PyQt5/Python3+PyQt4/Python2.7 plugins and scripts.

- Nathan

On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 at 20:17 Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:

> Il 17/04/2015 09:51, Radim Blazek ha scritto:
> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 8:43 PM, HAUBOURG
> > <regis.haubourg at eau-adour-garonne.fr> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> again, I really can't understand squeezing the very next release now, a
> month before feature freeze.
> >>
> >> For a major break, good practices should be:
> >>  - announce it publicly at least two minor versions before
>
> +1
>
> >>  - finish old branch on a LTR version and announce it so that feature
> are not added in that branch
>
> +1 (this is a good reason to have 2.8 followed by 3)
>
> >>  - not break API too often. 2.0 was.. less than two years ago.
>
> This would be good, but I'm afraid is partly outside of our control
> (libray update by major distros).
> What is the main problem in breaking APIs? AFAIK is the need to fix the
> plugins. IMHO we should avoid leaving plugin authors alone; providing
> detailed instructions on how to upgrade the plugin, and if possible some
> scripts to fix most common cases, would make things less traumatic.
> Therefore I suggest evaluating this work, and investing in it.
> All the best.
>
>
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