[Qgis-psc] Formal request to extend LTR life span to two years

[Sandro Santilli]

On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 11:23:37AM +0100, Andreas Neumann wrote:

> Now, I'd like to find out under which circumstances QGIS.ORG would be
> willing to officially support QGIS LTR version for 2 years. I know that the
> last time I brought up this topic, it was rejected with the argument of
> limited resources of QGIS.ORG. But what if QGIS.ORG would have more
> resources? Would you still reject that request?
> 
> Follow up question: if QGIS.ORG would support an extension of the life span
> of an LTR for 2 years, would QGIS have to maintain overlapping LT versions
> in parallel, because we release a new LTR version every year, or would we
> rather also release fewer LTR versions, e.g. an LTR only every second year?

I think having an LTR release every 2 years and supporting it for 2
years is a good idea. Note I'm still having 3.4.12 on my system and
wondering how can we already be at 3.12 ! Time flies...

--strk;