[Qgis-developer] QGIS 1.0 Feature Freeze Begins

[John C. Tull]

-1

User perspective, so take with a grain of salt.

I think the rc or beta approach for FOSS4G2008 is the right approach.  
Not really different than the 1.0 to 1.0.1 release schedule, but saves  
the hit that the qgis dev team will take for putting out a 1.0 that is  
quite buggy. A rc or beta can be buggy without tarnishing the quality  
of project.

Regards,
John

On Sep 10, 2008, at 1:46 PM, Tim Sutton wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Many thanks to all who have contributed new features for the 1.0
> release. I have merged in the new plugin installer from Borys now and
> would like to start with feature freeze. Chances of getting version
> 1.0 out in time for FOSS4G2008 are looking slim , especially if we
> want to get much polishing & translation etc done. I am in favour of
> pushing the schedule to get it out for end of Sept anyway and then
> following up with a 1.0.1 bugfix release shortly after (e.g. end Oct /
> Mid nov). Could I ask you please to top post your votes:
>
> +1 - lets push to get QGIS 1.0 out for 25 Sept
> 0 - dont care either way
> -1 - slow down tonto, lets rather take our time
>
>
> I will be working my way down the checklist at
> http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/ReleaseChecklist1.0 and encourage those
> who have tasks assigned there to refresh your memories. If there is a
> general concensus to +1 above I will adjust the checklist dates to
> account for the short release  - and if there isnt I will put more
> conservative dates into the checklist tomorrow evening.
>
> Release team, now is a good time to start assembling a super duper set
> of publicity material for QGIS!
>
> Community team the user interface should now be stable and I would not
> expect to see any further changes unless it is absolutely needed to
> fix a show stopper bug (unlikely I hope).
>
> Best regards to all,
>
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