We only update our LTR at most every 6 months and for some they are still using quite old versions. The only reason we might want something updated sooner would be if there were a bug that someone had encountered.
Regards, Calvin On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 9:47 AM Saber Razmjooei via QGIS-Developer < qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org> wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > Thanks for raising this issue. > > From our experience with various large organizations, they generally skip > most of the minor releases. But for those who fund a specific bug fix, they > will immediately upgrade to the latest LTR as soon as the fix appears in > the release. > So, having the current regular releases of LTR suits both sets of users. > The LTR releases can be skipped for most organisations but also crucial for > those who pay to fix a bug in QGIS master and get backported to LTR. > > Kind regards > Saber > > On Wed, 1 Mar 2023 at 10:24, Andreas Neumann via QGIS-Developer < > qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Like that other decision - that was a bit hard to find (you helped me >> find it in QEP 239) - I don't know exactly where the quarantine rule >> originated. I am pretty sure there was discussion. >> >> Nyall: can you please share some background when and why it was >> introduced and if this decision can be found in some QEP or PSC decision? >> >> Note that I am not questioning the quarantine rule - I think it makes >> sense - but I want to discuss the combination of the quarantine rule with >> the thinned out release cycle - and how we can improve things in this >> respect. >> >> Thank you all for the discussion, >> >> Andreas >> >> On 2023-03-01 10:16, Jürgen E. Fischer via QGIS-Developer wrote: >> >> Hi Andreas, >> >> On Tue, 28. Feb 2023 at 08:55:49 +0100, Andreas Neumann via >> QGIS-Developer wrote: >> >> However, the situation is, that there is also a "quarantine rule" - which >> is not mentioned in QEP 239 - but it helps to prevent untested patches to >> end up in LTR versions, by delaying the backports until the backport was >> first tested in the non-LTR stable release. >> >> >> Where is that quarantine rule? Is it tied into the backport bot? >> >> In the good old days I'd apply my fixes to master also to the release >> branches, >> once the showed to work in master and didn't produce additional complains >> from >> users of the nightlies. And that ideally not shortly before the release >> so >> people could still try the release nightlies. >> >> >> Jürgen >> >> _______________________________________________ >> QGIS-Developer mailing list >> QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org >> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> QGIS-Developer mailing list >> QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org >> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> > > > -- > Saber Razmjooei > www.lutraconsulting.co.uk > > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >
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