Hi Anita,
I know that I don't need to update every release.
By stressful - I don't only mean myself as a governmental user - but us
all (the people involved with the QGIS project). For you as well. Why do
we have to release so often? Aside from web browsers - I don't know a
single open source project that releases so often.
In reality, there wasn't a single release that did not need a patch
release shortly after.
By concentrating on fewer releases we could invest more resources in
quality assurance, testing, etc.
Who really needs a release every four months?
We also put stress on our users - if they don't upgrade every release -
they risk that their project doesn't load properly anymore. There are
many cases where the user tried to upgrade - say from 2.2 to 2.8 and ran
into troubles because he skipped 2.4 and 2.6.
I think the time based releases are a very good idea - but to release
every four months is too often.
Andreas
On 12.10.2015 15:24, Anita Graser wrote:
Hi Andreas,
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Andreas Neumann <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
As a QGIS user in government (you could also replace this by a
company or other professional users) I find the 4 month release
schedule not ideal - and quite stressful. I would rather prefer a
half-year or yearly release and then proper bug-fix releases.
Could you clarify why this issue is not addressed by the current LTR
approach? Just sticking to the LTR
versions (maybe not 2.8.0/2.14.0 but instead 2.8.1/2.14.1) shouldn't
be stressful.
Best wishes,
Anita
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