[Qgis-developer] fTools (Vector) concern

[Marco Hugentobler]

Hi Maxim

Please do critisism in a more constructive way. Don't forget that the f-Tools 
contributors put many, many hours of work in it.

> I suggest that a serious review of Vector tools is needed (hackfest?),
>  first by maintainer, then by a single user checking _all_ instruments
>  under both Win and Linux. This can be followed by a group effort to hunt
>  for more bugs (here I offer our help).

Are you (or someone of your team) joining the hackfest?
It would be great if you coordinate with the maintainer and put some resources 
of your team into f-Tools improvements (that's how opensource works ;-) ).

Regards,
Marco  

Am Freitag, 5. März 2010 15.42:23 schrieb Maxim Dubinin:
> Hi all,
> 
> This email contains some hard critics, but I feel like I have to open
> this topic to motivate needed change.
> 
> I'm very disappointed  with  fTools (Vector) and when I say 'I'
> unfortunately I reflect an opinion of a larger community.
> 
> At  the  our bug hunt and continuously after I believe 50% of the bugs
> we  found were from fTools (and this is very considerable number, trac
> regulars  for sure can tell). We've raised some seriously disappointed
> comments like "Nothing works in Vector menu". I simply couldn't test
> Simplify features because it doesn't work, as well. Everytime I (or
> other people from our group) open an instrument from Vector, there is a
>  string of bugs to fill and this is very tiring and very bad looking in
>  places where we try to make people move from some GIS to QGIS.
> 
> I suggest that a serious review of Vector tools is needed (hackfest?),
>  first by maintainer, then by a single user checking _all_ instruments
>  under both Win and Linux. This can be followed by a group effort to hunt
>  for more bugs (here I offer our help).
> 
> Maxim
> 
> PS: We love you Carson, please don't take too hard. We will continue
> reporting bugs and patches. I know what opensource is ;)
> 
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