Jürgen E. Fischer via QGIS-Developer <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi Denis, > > On Thu, 20. Aug 2026 at 11:22:04 +0200, Denis Rouzaud via QGIS-Developer > wrote: >> On the release schedule, the next LTR still targets 4.2.4 in October. > > Well, actually that's already done. The branch is what is LTR and that's > release-4_2 with the ltr-4_2 tag. So rescheduling would at least mean to > remove that tag (and AFAIK everyone who already pulled it, would have to > delete > it manually). > > That the new LTR doesn't get instantantly to the LTR repos is just because the > repos get an update all four weeks and while the new ltr is still the latest > release, we would have only one release to feed to both. Therefore the > previous ltr release is still put into the ltr package repos, while the new > ltr > release that is also the latest release goes into the other repos. The ltr > enters the ltr repos once there's a new release. That way both repos get > continuous updates and following the ltr repos gives you a new ltr only after > it has been around for a while. As someone who believes that what matters is source code and declarations about source code -- and that binary distribution should follow from that and not be that important semantically -- I find this pretty boggling. As I understand it, today the "current LTR" is 3.44.13. The 4.2 branch series has not yet been blessed as LTR, even if there is a tag in a repo indicating a plan to do that at some point. At some point, there will be a declaration that 4.2.x is an LTR, and 3.44.y will become the old LTR -- but that as I understand it hasn't happened yet. It sounds like there are legitimate concerns that 4.2 is not suitable for production use, as in it isn't possible to announce "We don't know anything about your environment, but for almost everyone, the right thing to do is to update to 4.2.x as soon as we declare it LTR". Of course, everyone -- from big enterprises to individuals -- should do backups and test their workflows before upgrading. What does PSC think about whether say 90% of qgis users: are they (or will they be in October) better served by 4.2 than 3.44? _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
