Thanks Nyall and Andreas, I missed the point that an LTR can have updated releases, i.e. 2.8 download links can be updated until February 2016, right?
giovanni 2015-01-21 9:27 GMT+01:00 Andreas Neumann <a.neum...@carto.net>: > Hi Giovanni, > > The idea is to invest more in bugfixing and bugfix releases for the LTR > release. If a major problem in 2.8 LTR is found and 2.10 is already out, > there would still be another bug fix release for 2.8 LTR. LTR is for one > year of support in bug fixing. > > QGIS PSC and QGIS-CH may also decide to invest more money into bug fixing > of a LTR release. > > Andreas > > On 21.01.2015 09:24, G. Allegri wrote: > > Could you help me to understand what distinguishes a normal QGIS release > and an LTR? In other sw the LTR (LTS) guarantees long term maintanance, > backporting fixes, etc. but in the QGIS lifecycle a release is fixed, so > what's the difference for the end user between 2.6 and 2.8? Maybe that it's > download link will be mantained for a longer time? :) > > giovanni > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing > listQgis-developer@lists.osgeo.orghttp://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > -- Giovanni Allegri http://about.me/giovanniallegri Twitter: https://twitter.com/_giohappy_ blog: http://blog.spaziogis.it GEO+ geomatica in Italia http://bit.ly/GEOplus
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