Am 13.10.2015, 10:00 Uhr, schrieb Wolfgang Stemberger
<[email protected]>:
Dear all,imagine yourself being a new QGIS user. Go on the qgis-website
and you see immediately the download option >for version 2.10. Click on
"documentation" and you realise it refers to 2.8. This situation was
even worse in the >past (I think 2.8 versus 2.2). The first impression
you get, is that the software is not properly documented and >this is
definitely not a good argument especially for newbies (who we should
convince of using qgis). There is >already a lack on people
contributing to the documentation, but the short release cycle makes it
even more >difficult to have up-to-date software help.
As several others have also mentioned, QGIS has very good functionality
now and a slow-down would help to >make the software more stable and to
improve issues like documentation. Such a stable and well documented
>version could be promoted on the main page of qgis, while rather
unstable versions with more functionality >should be rather "hidden" for
those who would like to test.
+1
I can imagine that the developers are proud of their product and want to
promote it (2.10 vs. 2.8.3).
And in the past, it was really essential to migrate to the next version
asap to get needed/missing features.
But even me, who likes to be on the edge and who is not afraid to test new
things (which most people I know wont), I now stick to the LTR cause the
advantages to switch the version compared to the hassle to update the
system (and other peoples systems I would like to share projects with) are
tending to zero or even minus.
Having to wait for 2 years for another version (and its nice new
functions) on the other hand seems a little long to me.
A yearly base for a main version of QGIS would be fine. Documentation
would have time to keep pace, bugs could be eliminated with point releases.
Sponsors who want their paid core features delivered asap should then have
to take the "risk" and use intermediated releases, at the price of less
documentation and maybe more bugs.
But the majority of users would benefit from that (which hopefully would
result in more donations).
Just my 2 cents from my naive user perspective.
Bernd
p.s.
It would also be nice for me as a Linux user to have an easy possibility
to run the master-version alongside LTR without compiling and stuff (like
Windows user can).
Wolfgang
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 09:32:28 +0200
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Release schedule discussion - again
Hi Lauri,
On Tue, 13. Oct 2015 at 10:27:57 +0300, Lauri Kajan wrote:
What if we don't introduce any new features in LTR releases?
Huh? That's what we do. And the LTR package repositories are fed with
the
new LTR release only after it has been regular release for four month.
So you
would probably never see a .0 there.
Jürgen
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