[Qgis-psc] Release post

[Nyall Dawson]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 at 07:52, Marco Bernasocchi <marco at qgis.org> wrote:
>
> Well I think the main think is I guess that win and ubuntu/debian are
> very predictable while mac isnt as well.
>
> I'd be great to change this.

What I'm saying is that we've always taken this viewpoint in the past,
with the message "Mac users aren't pulling their weight -- contribute
(financially or otherwise) to improve the situation".

I believe that message has finally been taken seriously, and we've
seen in 3.4 that there's at least 2 independent projects where
financial support of the mac OS platform is leading to a better
experience there.

As a result, can't we just delay the release post for (let's say a
maximum of 1 week) to give it time for packaging for this platform? At
worst, we delay the post by a week. At best, we'll have builds
available for at time of posting for more major platforms, and less
"where are the packages for XXX operating system" complaints from
users.

If it doesn't work then the only downside is a week later release
post, and we can go back to the old approach for 3.6...

Nyall


>
> by the way I don't think that "tricking" our mach users with download
> 3.4 that links to http://qgis.org/downloads/macOS/QGIS-macOS-3.2.3-1.dmg
> will work :D
>
> @ richard is that link generated automatically?
>
> cheers
>
> Marco
>
> On 28.10.18 22:22, Nyall Dawson wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 at 01:21, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >>
> >> On 26 Oct 2018, at 16:50, Régis Haubourg <regis.haubourg at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all, thanks for that.
> >> I agree that we should release the post when windows and ubuntu / debian binaries are out, just to avoid the noise we have had in the past releases.
> >>
> >>
> >> Why leave out macOS in that list? :-P Lets rather have all major platforms included in our planning….
> > +1 to this. We always get so much user angst and hurt from mac users
> > after our release announcements. Could we try this cycle to hold it
> > back to give a reasonable time for mac packaging and see how it goes?
> >
> > Nyall
> >
> >
> >> Regards
> >>
> >> Tim
> >>
> >>
> >> I rephrased the text like this in the draft:
> >>
> >> "Windows and ubuntu/debian binaries are already out, and all the packagers are actively preparing packages for the other operating systems. We'll keep you updated when different packages and installers become available."
> >>
> >> How does it sound?
> >>
> >> Régis
> >>
> >> Le ven. 26 oct. 2018 à 17:39, Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> a écrit :
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 5:24 PM Jürgen E. Fischer <jef at norbit.de> wrote:
> >>>> Depends on what we consider the release.   Either we announce it when packages
> >>>> are ready - then the release isn't done yet.   If it's "just" the branch, tag
> >>>> and tar ball, then it's already done.   But above doesn't fit either case.
> >>>
> >>> Was just following https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/commit/4a4b62ed19d2333b1f3a9e72bf77119048e3c9c0 :)
> >>>
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