Re: [QGIS-Developer] "Early Adopter" release

2018-07-07 Thread Patrick Dunford
Hi thanks for your comment Whilst aware of issues with 3.x I have migrated most of my projects to it as it seems to be stable enough for everyday work. I am considering installing the development build onto one of my computers. I also migrated all the shapefiles to geopackage as this appears

Re: [QGIS-Developer] "Early Adopter" release

2018-07-07 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi again, Patrick, Some other thoughts: I recently visited the SWISS PGDAY (organized by Swiss PostgreSQL user group). The very interesting keynote was by Bruce Momjian - a long time core contributor of PostgreSQL. The title of the keynote was "Will PostgreSQL live forever?" Some answers

Re: [QGIS-Developer] "Early Adopter" release

2018-07-07 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi Patrick, QGIS 3.x has major changes under the hood: - Change from qt4 to qt5 - QGIS internal API changes - Change from Python 2 to Python 3 - Completely rewritten: QGIS server, Print composer/layouts, Processing - All Python plugins have to be changed and adopted to the above listed

[QGIS-Developer] "Early Adopter" release

2018-07-06 Thread Patrick Dunford
Can someone please explain to me why Qgis 3.0 banner is named "early adopter release" In other words what stage of development is Qgis 3.0 expected to be at in terms of user experience. As a related question how many bugs do you expect to fix for each release and at what point do you expect