<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi <div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 13 Nov 2015, at 20:40, Giovanni Manghi <<a href="mailto:giovanni.manghi@gmail.com" class="">giovanni.manghi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Dear PSC, good afternoon,<br class=""><br class="">during the dev meeting the attention was raised about one outstanding<br class="">issue we have right now in QGIS > 2.8.*.... ftools tools are basically<br class="">broken (we have evidence that at least in some case they return wrong<br class="">results). I think that will make a resume about this meeting (Werner<br class="">if I'm wrong then I can try to do it).<br class=""><br class="">Anyway I would also to raise the attention about two other outstanding<br class="">issues, that are not recent and that I think need to be addressed as<br class="">soon as possible (before the next LTR release) and with enough advance<br class="">to allow test the fixes in a proper way. What am I speaking about?<br class=""><br class="">* qgis still computes wrong areas when OTF is on, see for example:<br class=""><a href="http://hub.qgis.org/issues/13209" class="">http://hub.qgis.org/issues/13209</a><br class=""><br class="">this is one of the problems with areas, the others being that areas<br class="">are always computed in square meters even if the CRS is in feet, and<br class="">the other is that in virtual columns areas are always computed on a<br class="">plane (ignoring ellipsoid configuration)<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">* shapefile with geometries edited in qgis (deleted, splitted, etc)<br class="">are unusable in other gis packages, see:<br class="">http://hub.qgis.org/issues/11007<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">as I said this are not recent issues, and in my point of view very very bad.<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Andreas could we allocate some funds for taking care of this and releasing 2.8.4? It seems like a very good way to spend donated project money.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tim</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""><br class="">cheers!<br class=""><br class="">-- g --<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Qgis-psc mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org" class="">Qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-psc<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><div class=""><span><img height="60" width="60" apple-inline="yes" id="137D97A6-7B82-4D43-BFAB-58B292F146B3" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:DDEF9B12-67C3-4498-BD7D-EC3563CC35A4" class=""></span><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Tim Sutton<br class="">QGIS Project Steering Committee Member<br class=""><a href="mailto:tim@qgis.org" class="">tim@qgis.org</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""></div></body></html>