[Qgis-developer] Next release name - 'Metis'

[Tim Sutton]

Hi All

By the way the best stock image I found so far is this:

http://www.solarviews.com/raw/jup/metis.gif :-) :-)

So making the splash is gonna be a bit of a challenge :-)

Regards

Tim

2008/5/12 Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com>:
> Hi Martin
>
>  Yes I will be updating the release schedule etc shortly (probably next
>  week, I want to have a release team meeting first). I agree things
>  look tight for sept based on current progress.
>
>  I also wanted to discuss with the developer community at large the
>  idea that was rased a month or two back about making QGIS 0.11.0 a
>  performance boosting focussed release. ie. that we target bugs
>  relating to performance and generally try to get things running more
>  zippily. What do others think? I am also planning to start a review of
>  the UI in this release (but it may continue into next release too. I
>  am writing up some human interface guidelines for QGIS and will be
>  working to get all dialogs compliant.
>
>  Perhaps we need to try to have a qgis town hall meeting next week to
>  discuss plans for the next release?
>
>  Also there is a code sprint session at FOSS4GEO in sept, that would be
>  worth having a bug sqaushing fest in if QGIS 1.0 is not already out.
>
>  Regards
>
>  Tim
>
>  2008/5/12 Martin Dobias <wonder.sk at gmail.com>:
>
>
> > Hi Tim,
>  >
>  >  regarding the next release, can you specify the dates for feature
>  >  freeze and release? On wiki I see that the date for release was set to
>  >  10 June 2008, but since 0.10 release got shifted, I guess this one
>  >  should get longer window for new features.
>  >
>  >  Moreover I'd like to start some discussion about release of 1.0. I
>  >  know that the best would be to release it before FOSS4G, but do you
>  >  think it's still possible to get it ready on time? Because that would
>  >  leave just July and August for polishing and bugfixing before 1.0 -
>  >  and this is off season since people are on holidays. In my opinion it
>  >  would be good to release also 0.12 and get 1.0 out at the end of  the
>  >  year.
>  >
>  >  Martin
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:
>  >  > Hi all
>  >  >
>  >  >  I'd like to name the next relese 'Metis' (the next moon along from IO
>  >  >  on the way to Jupiter...
>  >  >
>  >  >  Any objections?....I want to start getting the version strings updated
>  >  >  for the next release.
>  >  >
>  >  >  http://burro.astr.cwru.edu/stu/jupiter_moons.html
>  >  >
>  >  >  Regards
>  >  >
>  >  >  Tim
>  >  >
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Tim Sutton
QGIS Project Steering Committee Member - Release Manager
Visit http://qgis.org for a great open source GIS
openModeller Desktop Developer
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niche modelling tool
Home Page: http://tim.linfiniti.com
Skype: timlinux
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