[Qgis-developer] What will be in QGIS 2.0

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Ok - I see that there are already too many feature requests for 2.0.
>
> Some of them need API/architecture breaks, some not.
>
> So maybe release a 1.9x in between?
>
> In general I would say we need a release once a year at least. If 2.0 takes
> longer to develop I would do a 1.9 release in between.
>
> Cleaning up all the duplicates (symbology, labeling, diagrams, etc.) and
> working on improving the user experience could be done in a 1.9x release.
>

API is already broken with the raster architecture changes, so I think
we are better off releasing 2.0 sooner and with less features than
putting out a 1.9 which is not API compliant with the rest of the 1.x
series. My idea was to present (and let others add) all the ideas out
there and then pare it down to a reaslistic list. Personally I was
thinking / hoping we could do a 2.0 release by year's end.

Regards

Tim


> Andreas
>
>
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 13:26:42 +0200, Tim Sutton wrote:
>>
>> Hi All
>>
>> Marco and I have been discussing version 2.0 and wanted to bring the
>> discussion onto the list. In particular we are interested in:
>>
>> - When is a reasonable date to aim for the release?
>> - What features will be part of 2.0?
>> - What things are we going to clean away for the release?
>>
>> Here are a list of the possible things that could go into 2.0 that we
>> came up with:
>>
>> - QgsGeometry Refactor to support arcs, measures, 3d geometries and
>> geometry collections (Marco is working on this though unless he is
>> funded to work on it it is unlikely to happen for 2.0)
>> - Threading branch and threaded data provider refactor (a long time
>> ago in GSOC project far away Martin Dobias got much of the ground work
>> in place but the delta between his branch and master is huge now)
>> - Raster refactor to use new renderer architecture, native WCS
>> support, pipelines, 'save as' support and more (this work is being
>> funded by the World Bank and will be available in master over the next
>> 3 months)
>> - GSOC project for symbology UI redesign / improvements (how is this
>> work going?)
>> - GSOC project for on the fly feature generalization (also how is this
>> going)
>> - Addition of Sextante into QGIS as a standard plugin (assuming that
>> sits well with Victor)
>>
>> What else do we miss from the list? Are any others out there actively
>> working on features / funding features that we should be aware of?
>>
>> In terms of decrufting, it would be good to remove all the duplicated
>> items:
>>
>> - twin labelling systems
>> - unified add layer dialogs
>> - twin symbology systems
>> - about 15 ways to generate hillshades
>> - too many toolbars / icons by default
>> - remove all deprecated calls from the API
>>
>> Are there any other things that folks would like to add to the
>> discussion for the roadmap for version 2.0?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>>
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