[Qgis-psc] Draft announcement re 3.0

[Nathan Woodrow]

IMO we should just branch now if we are doing it this way.  The sooner the
better as it will give us more time to prep.

On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 7:40 pm Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Richard Duivenvoorde <richard at duif.net>
> wrote:
>
>> On 07-02-16 22:56, Tim Sutton wrote:
>> > Hi PSC> I have written up a draft announcement about the 3.0 plan. I am
>> > including a complete draft below.. Please let me know if you have
>> > comments, corrections, additions to this DRAFT so that I can post it and
>> > then advertise it more broadly.
>>
>>
>> Nice writing as always Tim! Thanks for this.
>>
>>
> ​No problem!​
>
>
>
>> To me it is not fully clear in this text if we will branch 2.14 or 2.16,
>> I think that is because (in Juergens words) in the beginning we talk
>> about branch in parallel (which at least in my eyes is about branching
>> now). But in the disadvantages part we write : "To counter this, our
>> public recommendation is that after 2.16 comes out..."
>>
>> If we are not branching 2.14, we could mention the reason we are NOT
>> branching now already (paid features/contracts?). I'm afraid some will
>> be disappointed that they have to wait another half year before they can
>> add the things they want to add/change.
>>
>>
> ​My understanding (correct me if I am wrong Jürgen) is that we will do
> nothing different for 2.x releases. I think the simplest way to explain it
> is that we just 'keep on trucking', doing 2.x releases​ as 'normal' every 4
> months until 3.0 is ready. After 2.16 is released, we immediately create
> teh 3.0 branch and encourage all new features to be written there.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>
>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard
>>
>> PS I still think branching NOW is best: if no one will do anything, we
>> will have a branch where nothing happens, but if dev's start
>> working/testing ( at least I will try to build :-) ) we will have a
>> headstart or at least some experience.
>>
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