[QGIS-ZA-user] Slowing down of the release cycle of QGIS

[admire]

Hi all

The QGIS conference in Coruna has just completed and there has been a 
lot of issues discussed and one of the major sticking points was the 
release cycle overview. The Swiss user group requested

the slowing down of the release cycle from 3 times per year to 2 times 
per year. They cited the following reasons:

* QGIS has reached a level of maturity where there aren't so many 
featured missing to justify the fast release pace in order to allow 
missing features to reach users quickly.

* Many organizations can't keep up with the fast pace of QGIS release, 
meaning the many QGIS releases are tested by fewer people who live on 
the "cutting edge".

* It reduces the pressure on developers, release managers, documenters, 
packagers and system administration to roll out QGIS in their organizations.

* The time window for testing of new releases is really short, which 
results in often unusable 3.x.0 releases. In reality, many organizations 
have to wait for two or three bugfix releases until the major release 
becomes usable for them.

Another issue that was discussed was the difficulty of users upgrading 
the point releases, especially for windows. A typical example being the 
LTR version where users would install 2.18.0 and maintain this until 
migrating to the next LTR version whilst the 2.18.x went all the way to 
2.18.21

What is your take on the issues listed above?

Regards

Admire