[Qgis-developer] 1.8 release?

[Martin Dobias]

Hi devs

looking at the amount of time (~6 months) and commits (~900) since the
1.7 release I am wondering whether it would not be reasonable to make
also 1.8 release. Originally we wanted 1.7 to be the last 1.x feature
release, however the master branch is in a good shape and no API
breakage happened until now. Once we will start breaking things it
will take some time (e.g. 6-9 months) until we will be able to release
2.0 and it would be a shame not to deliver the recent goodies for such
a long time.

This is an incomplete list of main new features in master branch since 1.7:
- globe plugin
- road graph plugin
- zonal stats plugin
- browser (dock widget + standalone app)
- customization
- lots of server updates
- symbology: ellipses with data-defined fields, line patterns, point patterns
- 64-bit feature ids
- expressions instead of search strings
- generic import layer
- plenty of bugfixes and small improvements

If there is a consensus I guess the release could happen soon,
sometime in mid-November.

Regards
Martin