Re: [Qgis-developer] Extending timeline for 3.0?

2016-10-26 Thread Jürgen E . Fischer
Hi Nyall, On Wed, 26. Oct 2016 at 17:09:29 +1000, Nyall Dawson wrote: > "oh but we had already planned our corporate deployment schedule > around a March release!!11!!". Better to openly discuss this > possibility so everyone's on the same page. If we are all on the

Re: [Qgis-developer] Extending timeline for 3.0?

2016-10-26 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 26/10/2016 09:09, Nyall Dawson ha scritto: > I realise that - but March has been thrown around tentatively. I'd > hate to get to February and then have this blocked by responses like > "oh but we had already planned our corporate deployment schedule > around a March release!!11!!". Better to

Re: [Qgis-developer] Extending timeline for 3.0?

2016-10-26 Thread Nyall Dawson
On 26 October 2016 at 16:22, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote: > Hi Nyall, > > On Wed, 26. Oct 2016 at 15:53:22 +1000, Nyall Dawson wrote: >> What are everyone's thoughts on extending the timeline for 3.0? > > What timeline is there to extend? We didn't set a date - just had rough >

Re: [Qgis-developer] Extending timeline for 3.0?

2016-10-26 Thread Jürgen E . Fischer
Hi Nyall, On Wed, 26. Oct 2016 at 15:53:22 +1000, Nyall Dawson wrote: > What are everyone's thoughts on extending the timeline for 3.0? What timeline is there to extend? We didn't set a date - just had rough ideas. Jürgen -- Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel.

Re: [Qgis-developer] Extending timeline for 3.0?

2016-10-26 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hi, I agree with Nyall. As this is a major release this requires more time, have a look at how long it took Python 3 to finally become used for an idea on how people treat major breaks in API. As we already have 2.14, 1.6 and 2.18 out the door as a really good base I don't see a need to rush

Re: [Qgis-developer] Extending timeline for 3.0?

2016-10-26 Thread Neumann, Andreas
Hi, It would be fine for me to have a double dev cycle for 3.0. Devs should have enough time to make proper decisions and work on the API. And python devs probably also need more time to get their most important plugins in shape for the new API, qt5 and Python 3. Perhaps it would be good to

[Qgis-developer] Extending timeline for 3.0?

2016-10-25 Thread Nyall Dawson
Hi all, I'd like to start the discussion around this early so that we can plan ahead and not have to make a last-minute decision. What are everyone's thoughts on extending the timeline for 3.0? In my opinion things are currently going really well, we have Qt5/python3 builds which are stable