[Qgis-user] Unstable 1.7.3 - one specific point is WMS

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Werner,

On Thu, 22. Dec 2011 at 11:27:36 +0100, Werner Macho wrote:
> As far as i can see i would not say "getting more unstable" in general as it
> seems to only hit the WMS provider.. we'll see what happened and will not
> release 1.7.4 until the problem is identified and fixed

The bug itself wasn't even related to WMS.  The raster layer properties dialog
just tried to access a radio button for a property that WMS layers don't have.
Introduced by a fix related to the GDAL provider IIRC.   That was quickly
backported before the breakage of master was even noticed.

I think the wrong scale stuff in the last "stable" release, was also introduced
by a quick backport of a commit that broke master.

So apparently we are backporting stuff too quick without proper review and
testing.

That said, all the talk about quality assurance stuff is nice, but I (still)
don't think that we have enough resources to properly maintain a stable branch.

And if that's the case trying to might even waste some of it and do more harm
than good to the project.

I also have the impression - I might be mistaken, that the people actually
working on master, including me, therefore didn't participate much in the QA
discussion.


Merry christmas,
Jürgen 

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