[Qgis-developer] Re: 1.8 release?

[Etienne Tourigny]

It's a little late to add to this discussion, but I strongly support a
1.8 release, especially in light of the eminent API changes.

I love the new Browser dock window, and would like to see it in a
stable version.

regards, Etienne

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com> wrote:
> Hi Alex
>
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Alexander Bruy
> <alexander.bruy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Tim,
>>
>> so from now we should backport fixes only into 1.8 branch? Or 1.7.2
>> also will be released?
>>
>
> So the plan is this:
>
> - Werner Macho will maintain 1.7.x branch until 1.8 comes out (which
> will take probably around a month)
> - Once 1.8 comes out Werner will do the point release maintenance and
> I will focus on 1.9.99 beta releases leading up to QGIS 2.0
>
> So when 1.8 is out, just backport to the release-1_8 branch, the
> releases will then be branched from there to release-1_8_1
>
> Hope that makes sense.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>
>> 2011/11/12 Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com>:
>>>
>>> Ok so I am going to branch 1.8 tonight and try to release it when I
>>> get back to South Africa (I will post the release timetable only
>>> then). Feel free to backport anything useful into 1.8 until we hit
>>> feature freeze. That will free us up to start taking things apart a
>>> little on master.
>>
>> Thanks
>> --
>> Alexander Bruy
>>
>
>
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