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

[James Magidi]

Thank you Immo

You are a life saver

Cheers

James

On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 at 17:50, Immo Blecher via qgis-za-user <
qgis-za-user at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hi James,
>
> Go to your processing Toolbox and click the "Options" button.There will be
> a "Menus" item with a button next to it saying "Reset to defaults". That
> should do the trick. This is a bug which I have noticed if you change
> something in the "Providers".
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Immo
> On 2019/03/26 17:40, James Magidi via qgis-za-user wrote:
>
> 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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