[Qgis-psc] Which version should be LT?

[Nathan Woodrow]

Hi all,

I agree I think we need to stick to the set plan which was set for a
reason, go with LTR for 2.14 and then do 2.16 and 3.0

3.0 is going to be hard enough as is without last minute changes to the
release plans around LTR.

- Nathan

On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 11:52 pm Matthias Kuhn <matthias at opengis.ch> wrote:

> How about this,
>
> We stick to the original plan, release 2.14 as LTR. It's a bit short to
> change plans, especially if it has been communicated to clients (I'm
> sure René-Luc D'Hont is not the only one). Let's increase the trust into
> our roadmaps.
>
> We make another 2.16 release so we can provide customers with promised
> development in a reasonable time. Plus we can start to collect
> experience with py3, pyqt5 (I started to roll the drums for it. The
> argument "if we don't do a hard break nobody does anything" no longer
> counts, sorry ;) ).
>
> At the moment we have two versions which we feed with patches: 2.12 and
> 2.8 (besides master). Then it will be 2.16 and 2.14 (besides
> to-become-3.0-master). No difference really.
> As a user you can play it safe and go for 2.14, you can play it fancy
> and go 2.16. Or you can use the 2.16 release to start porting your
> plugins, to provide feedback for the migration...
>
> Best regards
>
> PS:
> The alternative is, we end up with a broken master in 3 weeks, no ported
> core plugins, no other plugins for it, no working unit tests, no roadmap
> for plugin developers which version to target and a lot of them only
> working on either the 2.x or the 3.x version of their plugin and we have
> unhappy customers because they have to wait a long time before they get
> their features (which they ordered and have been offered due to lack of
> a proper roadmap).
>
> Please, show some love and vote for a smooth migration path :)
>
> --
> Matthias Kuhn
> OPENGIS.ch - https://www.opengis.ch
> Spatial • (Q)GIS • PostGIS • Open Source
>
>
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