Hi Randal, On Thu, 19. Jun 2014 at 10:29:32 -0400, Randal Hale wrote: > * The linux releases only seem to get release once with no bug fixes. > Really that depends on the distro though...but for Ubuntu I think > that is correct.
Depends on the ubuntu version you have - and if there are packaging related bugs. For instance the trusty package was uninstallable (at least the python support) as trusty (unreleased at the time of the qgis release) moved on and hence the package was referring to package versions that didn't exist anymore. To fix that there was a new build from the release branch to solve that using the current release branch at that point. Other Packages that didn't need to be rebuild, because they were for stable releases weren't. Debian itself also has 2.2 builds that get the backported fixes (and Bas also backports some fixes we didn't backport and maybe stuff we didn't fix at all - I believe). But I Debian will probably stay at 2.2 and skip some upcoming version. > * The windows release (using osgeo) is absolutely great - it seems to be > getting bugfixes all the time. The qgis 2.2 package wasn't rebuild there either (even when it/I switched from GDAL 1.10.1 to 1.11). If you're referring to the nightly builds, than the ubuntu/debian argument argument above doesn't stick as we also have nightly builds for those - that would also have the latest fixes. > as long as you guys are happy with it. > It seems like this email stirred up some uneasiness among your guys for > release. Any user (in his right mind) isn't sitting there with everything > waiting on 2.4 coming out in 48 hours. Only ~20hrs. Friday 12:00 UTC. > Right now I thing the osgeo windows version (because mostly of sid and ecw > support) is the best version released. 2.2 (or better put GDAL 1.10.1) in OSGeo4W currently doesn't have plugins for MrSid and ECW. The standalone installer was made from the same binaries, but at release time when GDAL 1.10.1 was still default and still has ECW and MrSid out of the box. The nightly build however uses GDAL 1.11 which has those plugins. And 2.4 will be built with current GDAL in OSGeo4W and therefore will also have ECW/MrSid support. > A 5 to 6 month release cycle would be fine for a user (at least for me) if > there were bugfixes in between. That's the point. For the packaging it doesn't matter if you build a new release or an old release with bugfixes (one or a dozen). The effort is essentially the same. It just about building one state for a number of platforms. The release or bugfixes are already done at that point. So a new release every four month w/o bugfix release between release is less effort than a new release every six month with 2 bugfix releases. Jürgen -- Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. +49-4931-918175-31 Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rheinstraße 13 Fax. +49-4931-918175-50 Software Engineer D-26506 Norden http://www.norbit.de QGIS PSC member (RM) Germany IRC: jef on FreeNode -- norBIT Gesellschaft fuer Unternehmensberatung und Informationssysteme mbH Rheinstrasse 13, 26506 Norden GF: Jelto Buurman, HR: Amtsgericht Emden, HRB 5502 _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
