<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455838277084_1454078"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455838277084_1454077">Despite being a non-Mac user, I respectfully disagree....</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455838277084_1454076"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455838277084_1453852"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455838277084_1454075">Mainstream users should not have to wait until packages for ALL systems have been built. Some minor ports may take someone a while to complete - & others need not be waiting on this.</span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455838277084_1453674"><br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455838277084_1453674">A QGIS release announcement is NOT a promise that every OS out there will have a new package ready to go at the same time... It says only that the developers of the Open Source package QGIS have a new set of Open Source for people to access & use.</div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455838277084_1453674"><br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455838277084_1453674">I believe the wider user community are incredibly well served by both the devs & the packagers (as a user of Windows, Ubuntu (dev version) & OpenSuse packages) and would like express my appreciation here!! </div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455838277084_1453674"><br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455838277084_1453674" dir="ltr">If a packager has not built you a package when you want, compile it from the new source - that is what open source is fundamentally about. Though personally I, being lazy & not a dev by any means, just wait for the package except on Ubuntu (actually Mint) where my desire to play with the bleeding edge is enabled by the the nightly dev build - a wonderful resource!</div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455838277084_1453674" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455838277084_1453674" dir="ltr">That said, I see that the response is to try & do better - we cannot ask for more :-)</div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455838277084_1453674" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455838277084_1453674" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455838277084_1453674" dir="ltr">Cheers</div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455838277084_1453674" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455838277084_1453674" dir="ltr">Brent Wood</div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455838277084_1453674"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455838277084_1453856" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455838277084_1453855"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455838277084_1453854"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455838277084_1453853"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> "b.j.kobben@utwente.nl" <b.j.kobben@utwente.nl><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> madmanwoo@gmail.com <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, March 3, 2016 1:28 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Qgis-user] QGIS releases announced too early IMHO<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv0651253608"><div>
<div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:14px;">
Hi Nathan,</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:14px;">
<br clear="none">
</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:14px;">
You state that "<span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:medium;">There is no "official" release until the banner is changed on </span><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://qgis.org/" style="font-family:'Lucida Grande';">qgis.org</a><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:medium;"> and
announcement is made on the mailing lists/twitter, etc.". Well, that has happened now, but the KyngChaos site for Mac OSX still has 2.12. </span></div>
<div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:14px;">
<span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:medium;"><br clear="none">
</span></div>
<div>That is NOT a negative comment on that site, but it would be much nicer if the official release messages did not go out until AFTER all packagers have done their (great and much appreciated) work...</div>
<div><br clear="none">
</div>
<div>Barend</div>
<div>
<div><br clear="none">
</div>
<div>
<div>--</div>
<div>Barend Köbben</div>
<div>Senior Lecturer – ITC-University of Twente</div>
<div>PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede (Netherlands)</div>
<div>@barendkobben</div>
</div>
<div><br clear="none">
</div>
</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:14px;">
<br clear="none">
</div>
<span id="yiv0651253608OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:14px;">
</span><div class="yiv0651253608yqt8711304150" id="yiv0651253608yqt66694"><div>
<div>On 29/02/16 12:31, "Nathan Woodrow" <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:madmanwoo@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:madmanwoo@gmail.com">madmanwoo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
</div>
<div><br clear="none">
</div>
<div>
<div>
<div dir="ltr">Hi,
<div><br clear="none">
</div>
<div>Just so people are aware of the process. The count down on the website doesn't always mean the packages will be ready on release date, that is only the date/time that the code will be unfroozen and packages will begin being made. Some packages can take
longer then others before they are up on the website, OS X for example. There is no "official" release until the banner is changed on
<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://qgis.org/">qgis.org</a> and announcement is made on the mailing lists/twitter, etc.</div>
<div><br clear="none">
</div>
<div>Packages are being made and will be up on the website when ready, best advice is to keep an eye there. You can normally get the builds from OSGeo4W if using Windows, however until the packages are out that isn't an official version even if on version
2.14, last minute changes might still need to happen.</div>
<div><br clear="none">
</div>
<div>Regards,</div>
</div>
<div class="yiv0651253608gmail_extra"><br clear="none">
<div class="yiv0651253608gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:13 PM, Nikolaus Pruzsinszky <span dir="ltr">
<<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:n.pru@reflex.at" target="_blank" href="mailto:n.pru@reflex.at">n.pru@reflex.at</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none">
<blockquote class="yiv0651253608gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<u></u><u></u>
<div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">QGIS 2.14 (the new LTR) should have come out last friday. Is there any information when it will be availlable?</font></div>
<br clear="none">
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Cheers, Niko</font></div>
</div>
<br clear="none">
_______________________________________________<br clear="none">
Qgis-user mailing list<br clear="none">
<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><br clear="none">
List info: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user">
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a><br clear="none">
Unsubscribe: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user">
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a><br clear="none">
</blockquote>
</div>
<br clear="none">
</div>
</div>
</div></div>
</div></div><br><div class="yqt8711304150" id="yqt71712">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Qgis-user mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><br clear="none">List info: <a shape="rect" href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a><br clear="none">Unsubscribe: <a shape="rect" href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>