On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 at 03:21, Even Rouault <even.roua...@spatialys.com> wrote:
> One year between feature versions is quite a lot. Perhaps 6 months would be a > good compromise between having enough time to mature a complex feature and > faster delivery of it to people not directly consuming master. A consequence > of this is that our usual policy of supporting the last released branch > during the development cycle of the next release would also go to 6 month (to > avoid supporting too many branches at the same time), or perhaps even 4 (see > below example) +1. One year is a very long time for funders to see a usable outcome of their investment. > I've also heard voices wishing to have more frequent bugfix releases. Every 2 > months could be reasonable. +1. (No blame on the GDAL project at all for this, I totally understand that there's been no critical bug fixes in this time... but the current release gap of ~ 3 months is a long time to wait for minor bug fixes to be available for end users) Nyall _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev