[Qgis-psc] Draft announcement re 3.0

[Tim Sutton]

Hi


On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 2:58 AM, Larry Shaffer <larrys at dakotacarto.com>
wrote:

> Hi Tim, Jürgen and PSC,
>
> After reviewing this plan I have to say it is an excellent solution to a
> no-size-fits-all problem. Thank you for all the consideration and work you
> have put into it.
>
> I now have a solid (and indeterminate :^) schedule to present to my
> employer, which will help them plan resources to fund further QGIS
> development.
>
> It will also help with planning on how/when to produce new nightlies for
> Mac.
>

​Thanks Larry - I will post my blog post summarising everything tonight
(including salient bits from the above discussion). Yes its interterminate,
but I think the general aim is still to try to encourage everyone to get it
ready for 1 year from now (as much as we can).

Regards

Tim​



>
> Regards,
>
> Larry Shaffer
> QGIS Support/Development | Boundless
>
> Dakota Cartography
> Black Hills, South Dakota
>
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 7:45 AM, Jürgen E. <jef at norbit.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi Tim,
>>
>> On Mon, 08. Feb 2016 at 14:01:12 +0200, Tim Sutton wrote:
>> > Thanks Andreas - I’ll just paraphrase the above as another note in the
>> > article - should make things a bit clearer!
>>
>> Yes.  We do 2.16 with PyQt5/Python3 support next to the existing
>> Qt4/PyQt4/Python2 and the existing and widely unused Qt5 support.  So we
>> have
>> all the smooth, non-breaking steps in master.   We'll still release using
>> Qt4/PyQt4/Python2, so that all the plugins keep working.  And people can
>> complete stuff that they have already started working on.
>>
>> 2.16 will be in the regular 4 months schedule.
>>
>> After 2.16 we branch off a qgis3 branch that gets the API changes.  There
>> we
>> drop Qt4/PyQt4/Python2 support and switch to Qt5/PyQt5/Python3.  Because
>> we
>> cannot really estimate if that takes 4, 8 or even more months, we'll work
>> on
>> that on a "release when ready" scheme an see how it goes and set a date
>> when
>> qgis3 stabilized.
>>
>> The qgis3 branch will be in development so at first we'll probably have
>> something that doesn't build at all, requires dependencies that are not
>> easy
>> available or at least not available on all platforms, while we're at it.
>>
>> Because there might be stuff, that can't wait that long, we meanwhile keep
>> master open for new features.  The nightlies can keep on going without
>> much
>> effort and also regular releases could be done if necessary.
>>
>> But master should still considered a dead branch as we is relies on fading
>> dependencies and it will be eventually be replaced by the qgis3 (no
>> merge).  So
>> stuff added to master before will get lost, if it was not also merged or
>> redone
>> for qgis3.  So people should think twice if they consider to do anything
>> in
>> master while we're at qgis3.
>>
>>
>> Jürgen
>>
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