Hi,
I tend to agree with Bo - if I change my hat from being a QGIS
enthusiast who likes to live on the cutting edge - to being an
administrator responsible for many QGIS installations in different
departments of a government. In such an environment you want to minimize
the number of rollouts - because the rollouts cost time, money and
nerves. The fewer rollouts the better. And we have to wait until 2-4
minor releases are gone, until we have a more stable version.
In our environment at a province level government we are more
conservative with rollouts (automated installations of QGIS packages),
with the exception of 1-2 users who need cutting edge stuff from a
latest release, where we install manually specific to these 1-2 users.
If we look at the overall numbers, I would say that those users who need
stability more than the newest features are the majority of our users.
Andreas
On 2018-12-04 10:54, Hernán wrote:
> Thanks Bo for a very clear and to me very accurate picture of a 'typical'
> enterprise QGIS deployment.
>
> H.
>
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> Ämne: Re: [Qgis-user] User question of the month
> Från: Bo Victor Thomsen
> Till: [email protected]
> Kopia: [email protected]
>
> Hi Anita -
>
> Thanks for the effort in trying to establish user and upgrading patterns for
> QGIS :-)
>
> I think however, that the answers ar skewed, because the "enterprise" segment
> of users probably doesn't even know about this mailing list or "Planet
> QGIS", so the answers mostly represent "power" users.
>
> .
>
> My own experience with enterprise rollouts of QGIS - and I have made a couple
> of these - tells me that your average IT-department prefer a yearly rollout,
> might accept a major upgrade every 6 months and will absolutely *refuse*
> anything on a timescale lesser than 4 months. YMMV
>
> Enterprise users are roughly split in two groups. 25% are curious and
> embraces new versions. The other 75 % doesn't give a flying fig about new
> versions and functions as long the current version are stable and have a
> tool-set that covers the conceived needs for the individual user. Again, YMMV
>
> Just my 2 cents
>
> Kind regards
>
> Bo Victor Thomsen
>
> Den man. 3. dec. 2018 kl. 22.24 skrev Anita Graser <[email protected]>:
>
> Dear users,
>
> The answers to the user question of November have now been published:
> http://blog.qgis.org/2018/12/03/user-question-of-the-month-dec-18-answers-from-nov/
>
>
> We also have a new question for December: what you think QGIS.ORG [1] should
> focus on in 2019? https://goo.gl/forms/2xOP1rSz8AaDCCi02
>
> Regards,
> Anita
>
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 10:23 PM Anita Graser <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Dear users,
>
> QGIS 2.18 is the third LTR since we started this effort back in 2015 and next
> year will see the first LTR of QGIS 3. On this occasion, we want to learn
> more about our users and which versions of QGIS they use. Therefore, we
> invite you to our QGIS user question of the month:
> https://goo.gl/forms/m27b3W477fFNYtxg1
>
> Regards,
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