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

[Carlo Fourie]

Good afternoon

Personally I agree with the sentiment and prefer less updates.

Not sure if anyone else have issues with a fairly new release (3.4.4.), but
QGIS is prone to crash more (especially when you quit - this is on a 64-bit
Win 7 system) and the SCP plugin has lost some functionality (I'm getting
error messages when performing accuracy assessment).

I feel like the previous version might have been more stable.

Regards

Carlo

On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 10:51 AM admire via qgis-za-user <
qgis-za-user at lists.osgeo.org> 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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