[Qgis-developer] Quality assurance (was: Georeferencer produces wrong (shifted) result)

[Agustin Lobo]

I agree with Paolo and furthermore think that taking action is urgent:
qgis has a serious risk of getting the label of "unreliable tool" and
that label will be very difficult to overcome afterwards.
I personally confess I feel uncomfortable every time I use it for a
course because you never know
what bugs the students are going to find. This last time has worked
quite well (except on Macs, where
it has shown to be very unstable), but thanks to the fact that I
realized the error in georeferencing before the class and
skipped that exercise. Otherwise, can you imagine the opinion of the
students towards qgis after
getting the result shown earlier in this thread? On the other hand,
styling of rasters is so insufficient that I have to use other
software to explain the parts related to operations through histogram.

I personally think that if we are a sufficient number of users willing
to act as testers we should start doing it right now, not waiting for
the result of discussions any more.We should consider all releases of
qgis as RC for us and publish the results of
our testing as soon as we can after the release. The rest of users
will decide upon our results.  I understand the interest of many
developers is having qgis as a test bed and not a producing
environment and I respect that point of view that makes possible that
so many improvements and new tools become widely distributed, but
users requiring a reliable tool must have a tested software with a
clear summary of the operational problems they will face.

Agus


2011/12/16 Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>:
> Il 16/12/2011 18:53, Werner Macho ha scritto:
>
>> I dont think we need a Release Candidate cycle - From my point that will
>> bring only more "confuse" into the release cycle..
>
> So why most respected and established projects follow this route?
> Now QGIS is used very widely in professional contexts, and releasing supposedly
> stable packages with nasty regressions (as it is happening) brings no good to our
> users and reputation.
> I think our QA approach should improve, one way or another.
> All the best.
> --
> Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia
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