[Qgis-user] QGIS Policies and Roll Out Procedures Manual

[Larry Shaffer]

Hi Joseph,

With regards to the scheduling of releases, you might want to review:

* QGIS Road Map -
http://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/development/index.html#release-schedule

* QEP #4: Long Term Releases-
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/pull/6

For government agency roll-outs, you might consider using the proposed
(though not yet adopted) upcoming LTR version approach, which will be
supported with bug fixes for a period of one year from release.

Doing large roll-outs to many computers will be contingent upon many
variables, e.g. network setup, whether internet access is available,
whether mixed platforms are to be supported, etc.

If you are working solely with Windows, you might want to consider using
the OSGeo4W installer [0] and use a pre-downloaded cache local to your
network (so every computer does not need to download components via the
internet). Also check out its command line interface [1].

If administering a Mac environment, you can use Apple Remote Desktop admin
tool [2], and the Mac installers from Kyngchaos.com [3].

On Linux there are many tools for doing remote package installation, but an
interesting alternative is now available with docker (which, when coupled
with VirtualBox, works on other platforms, too) [4]. See "Running QGIS
desktop in a docker container" post by Tim Sutton [5] for more information.

I'm sure there are more scenarios not covered here, and other IT and sys
admins may jump in with interesting solutions.

Indeed there needs to be an official guide for common scenarios (unless I
am just missing an existing one).

[0] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki
[1] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/CommandLine
[2] https://www.apple.com/remotedesktop/
[3] http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/qgis
[4] https://www.docker.com/
[5] http://kartoza.com/qgis-desktop-in-docker/

Regards,

Larry Shaffer
Dakota Cartography
Black Hills, South Dakota

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 6:58 AM, Joseph Sloop <jbsloop at uncg.edu> wrote:

> Hello All!
> Outside of school I work in local government and I am pushing our local
> government to start using more QGIS. They are very open to the idea,
> therefore, I was tasked with creating a '​QGIS Policies and Roll Out
> Procedures' manual for our local government. This document would include
> items such as: When to update to next version, how to roll out QGIS to
> multiple users and departments, etc.  I was wondering if anyone else has
> had to write a similar manual and would be willing to share? Thank you all
> in advance!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Joseph  ​
>
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> Joseph Sloop
>
> PhD Candidate
>
> University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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> Department of Geography
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