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

[Zoltan Szecsei]

Hi Admire,
Hope you are well.

I agree that too many releases per year is not good.
Both from an deployment/implementation point of view, and a perception 
of their stability or "need".

My mind therefore tends for towards 2 per year.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Zoltan



On 2019/03/20 11:51, admire via qgis-za-user wrote:
> 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
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