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

[James Magidi]

Hi Team

I am having a challenge with QGIS 3.6. I installed QGIS 3.6 and it was
working perfectly well. Now my challenge is most of the menus that were
under the Raster Menu just disappeared and I cant have access them.

What can we do to solve this?

Regards

James Magidi

On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 at 13:19, Carlo Fourie via qgis-za-user <
qgis-za-user at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> 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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