[Qgis-psc] Draft announcement re 3.0

Tue Feb 9 14:15:53 PST 2016

Hi PSC,

Thank you very much for taking a decision, that will help very much to get ahead!

Just one question, did you evaluate to switch master with a qgis2 branch and qgis3 with master? So basically the same schema but with renamed branches.
IMHO that would make it clearer that devs are encouraged to work on qgis 3 and we would not have to "replace" a branch but instead just retire the qgis2 branch once the release happened.

Thanks again and best wishes

Matthias

On February 9, 2016 11:30:28 AM GMT+01:00, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:
>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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