[Qgis-psc] RE : Vote about release plan

[HAUBOURG]

Options are clear now.
Debian Jessie is not out yet (RC2). Debian did early announces and thanks to that, lot's of work have been made to anticipate QT5 in QGIS. Thanks for that guys. 

In my opinion backporting numerous new features to 2.8 is very close from making a 2.10, but could mess up things for users and commiters in github, that's why we ask for a 2.10 cycle.  

That plan should let debian jessie without QGIS for less than 2-3 months if we keep 4 months release. Or less, if we do an anticipate feature freeze so that dev's can work on QGIS 3 sooner. That would be very well understood by the community, since the debian's argument is strong, and that is announced soon enough to flush new features on the waiting list. 

Concerning what I am funding, most features being cooked are almost all commited now (proportionnal legends and size varying assistants). 


Cheers Régis

 

Paolo Cavallini cavallini at faunalia.it 
Fri Apr 17 09:26:38 PDT 2015
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Il 17/04/2015 16:31, Matthias Kuhn ha scritto:
> For me the most important questions are:
> 
> 1. Does the composer change require QGIS 3 (not totally convinced yet)?
> 
> 2. What should be the driver for QGIS 3?
>  2a) External dependencies (E.g. Debian Jessie+1 is going to remove Qt4 [1])

To me this is a sufficient reason for a move.
Why not:
* starting now with the 3.0 line
* postpone the release until there is enough time
* maintain the 2.8 LTR until 3.0 is ready
* backport individual important functions, in case this will be
necessary (see Régis comments).
All the best.
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