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

Tue May 13 02:24:22 EDT 2008

Hi

>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?

+1. Similar to the bug fixing festival, there could be a wiki page where developers can enter their performance boosting ideas and provide performance measurments (e.g. rendering time) before/after implementation. I can make this page if you like, but I'm a bit busy the next few days.

>I am also planning to start a review of
>the UI in this release 

It would also be good to make code cleaning sometime, e.g. cleaning out old comments and legacy code. I'm however not sure if developers have enough time to do that for the next release. I can imagine the 'code cleaning festival' one release after the 'performance boosting festival' (so probably before 1.0).

>Perhaps we need to try to have a qgis town hall meeting next week to
>discuss plans for the next release?

In my experience, there is usually not enough time to discuss things in the IRC meetings. Maybe people could state their plans for next release on the mailing list first so a potential IRC meeting can be more focused.

>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.

Very good idea, I'm looking forward to it. I wonder who from the QGIS community will be there too.

Regards,
Marco

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Dr. Marco Hugentobler
Institute of Cartography
ETH Zurich
Technical advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org im Auftrag von Tim Sutton
Gesendet: Mo 12.05.2008 22:14
An: Martin Dobias
Cc: QGIS Developer Mailing List
Betreff: Re: [Qgis-developer] Next release name - 'Metis'

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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