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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I tend to agree with Bo - if I change my hat from being a QGIS enthusiast who likes to live on the cutting edge - to being an administrator responsible for many QGIS installations in different departments of a government. In such an environment you want to minimize the number of rollouts - because the rollouts cost time, money and nerves. The fewer rollouts the better. And we have to wait until 2-4 minor releases are gone, until we have a more stable version.</p>
<p>In our environment at a province level government we are more conservative with rollouts (automated installations of QGIS packages), with the exception of 1-2 users who need cutting edge stuff from a latest release, where we install manually specific to these 1-2 users.</p>
<p>If we look at the overall numbers, I would say that those users who need stability more than the newest features are the majority of our users.</p>
<p>Andreas</p>
<p>On 2018-12-04 10:54, Hernán wrote:</p>
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<p>Thanks Bo for a very clear and to me very accurate picture of a 'typical' enterprise QGIS deployment.<br /><br />H.</p>
<div class="quote" style="line-height: 1.5;"><br /><br />-------- Ursprungligt meddelande --------<br />Ämne: Re: [Qgis-user] User question of the month<br />Från: Bo Victor Thomsen <!-- bovictorthomsengmailcom ignored --><br />Till: anitagraser@gmx.at<br />Kopia: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org<br /><br /><br />
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<div style="font-size: small;">Dear users,</div>
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<div style="font-size: small;">The answers to the user question of November have now been published: <a href="http://blog.qgis.org/2018/12/03/user-question-of-the-month-dec-18-answers-from-nov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://blog.qgis.org/2018/12/03/user-question-of-the-month-dec-18-answers-from-nov/</a></div>
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<div>We also have a new question for December: what you think <a href="http://QGIS.ORG" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">QGIS.ORG</a> should focus on in 2019? <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/2xOP1rSz8AaDCCi02" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://goo.gl/forms/2xOP1rSz8AaDCCi02</a></div>
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<div dir="ltr">QGIS 2.18 is the third LTR since we started this effort back in 2015 and next year will see the first LTR of QGIS 3. On this occasion, we want to learn more about our users and which versions of QGIS they use. Therefore, we invite you to our QGIS user question of the month<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size: small;">: <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/m27b3W477fFNYtxg1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://goo.gl/forms/m27b3W477fFNYtxg1</a></span></div>
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<div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size: small;">Regards,</span></div>
<div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size: small;">Anita</span></div>
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