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

[Paolo Cavallini]

Hi all,

Il 06/02/20 16:24, Andreas Neumann ha scritto:
> Hi Even and others,
> 
> Thanks for your valuable feedback. I agree with the different phases of
> an LTR, from being more aggressive with bug fixing to being more
> conservative later on.
> 
> About the situation with dependencies (gdal, proj, geos): I wonder how
> other software packages do that who have a longer supported life span? I
> am pretty sure that most commercial GIS software packages offer support
>>1 year for. Do they typically freeze the dependencies? And maybe
> backport critical (e.g. security related) issues when necessary?
> 
> Would the gdal / proj / geos projects be open to discuss overlapping
> support of the latest versions in their projects? I am talking about
> critical issues, not new providers or features.
> 
> Of course, as always, I would also be interested in Jürgen's opinion, as
> his work would be affected by this decision.

I agree, dependencies will be an issue. For some platform we have full
control over the installers, but on cleaner systems (think Debian and
other Linuxes) this can be more difficult.
Cheers.

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