[Qgis-developer] Re: composer redesign branch

[Tim Sutton]

Hi all

My aplogies for writing general notes instead of adressing specific
points....its late....

Maybe its time to resurrect the rfc process we started on, get it
properly planned and then do it. It would be nice to start by having a
plain english (with simple diagrams) description of what is planned.

It would be good also in the process to try to accommodate some kind
of 'overpainting' technique so that we can better symbolise things
like freeways  and other line over line type symbologies (beyond the
simple line styles offered by Qt).

I'll pitch in where I can by writing unit tests etc (although I
encourage others to write tests too and follow test driven development
principles).


> Tim, as
> release manager, would you mind preparing such thing? (e.g. what
> releases are planned, when, and possibly what features should be
> targeted)

There is already a feature spec on the wiki.

http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/Features_For_QGIS_Version_1.0

The spec should probably be revised at our next dev meeting as some
things are probably no longer on the table. I think its futile for me
to try to prescribe dates and scehdule for release of 1.0 and make a
release programme for that without first getting some committment /
buy in from developers to actually try to meet that date. If everyone
agrees to  work hard to achieve 1.0 release by September I will draw
up a release schedule accordingly, but otherwise I think its better to
stick with the 2-month fixed interval release cycle that I have been
trying to get into place and we declare 1.0 release at some
unspecified point in the (hopefully 2008!) year.


Regards

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