[Qgis-psc] On finances

[Marco Bernasocchi]

Hi

On 04.12.18 12:24, Nyall Dawson wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 at 18:14, Andreas Neumann <andreas at qgis.org> wrote:
>
>> Personally I wonder if we shouldn't have a break in features for a period of one release where all of use would focus on stabilizing QGIS and improving the quality - both of QGIS itself and also in the documentation. Have one release windows (4 months) where we do not accept any major new features, but concentrate on fixing issues.
> In practice I can't really see how this would be any different from
> the LTR, which already sees a steady flow of fixes and no features.
> Having a "bug fix only" release won't directly result in more incoming
> fixes or funding for people to work solely on fixes, rather it would
> be the same rate of fixes that we see coming into the LTR release
> already [1]. Instead it's likely to just result in developers working
> on queued features which will all land the day when that release
> "thaws", probably resulting in MORE issues then if these features had
> been introduced in one at a time.
>
> (That's without even touching the difficulty in changing the published
> release schedule now, where devs and customers have already planned
> timelines and feature implementation based on the current schedule!)
>
> Nyall
>
> [1] Possibly less, because a lot of existing issues are identified and
> fixed during development of new features

I can't agree more with you, also seen from the perspective of a company
since we fix a lot of stuff as part payed new features. I think an
extended Feature freeze would be helpful and maybe as somebody mentioned
(or do I already deam this kind of things) only 2 releases per year?

Cheers

Marco

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