[Qgis-developer] 1.8 release?

[G. Allegri]

I agree Martin,
but I would hope that (at least) some of the major bugs reported for
1.7/1.7.1 will be solved before a new release.
The risk is to provide new features, but loosing stability for the ones
users are used to.

giovanni

2011/10/19 Martin Dobias <wonder.sk at gmail.com>

> Hi devs
>
> looking at the amount of time (~6 months) and commits (~900) since the
> 1.7 release I am wondering whether it would not be reasonable to make
> also 1.8 release. Originally we wanted 1.7 to be the last 1.x feature
> release, however the master branch is in a good shape and no API
> breakage happened until now. Once we will start breaking things it
> will take some time (e.g. 6-9 months) until we will be able to release
> 2.0 and it would be a shame not to deliver the recent goodies for such
> a long time.
>
> This is an incomplete list of main new features in master branch since 1.7:
> - globe plugin
> - road graph plugin
> - zonal stats plugin
> - browser (dock widget + standalone app)
> - customization
> - lots of server updates
> - symbology: ellipses with data-defined fields, line patterns, point
> patterns
> - 64-bit feature ids
> - expressions instead of search strings
> - generic import layer
> - plenty of bugfixes and small improvements
>
> If there is a consensus I guess the release could happen soon,
> sometime in mid-November.
>
> Regards
> Martin
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