[Qgis-developer] Backporting fixes to 1.8

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Werner Macho <werner.macho at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> As there are heavy changes in master right now and we do not have
> enough developers to grant a good/bugfree backporting workflow there
> was a the decision made on the last meeting in Zurich that development
> is continuing in master and we try to "release" a new version out of
> master sooner or later.
>

Of course Werner means 'Lyon' there....


> Depending on how long it takes to settle down all new features to a
> stable state in master and releasing a new version there will
> _probably_ be a bugfix version for 1.8 but I would not expect it.
> That means 1.8 will be 1.8 as it is right now for at least some time..
> until (hopefully) there will be a 1.9 (2.0?) with all the shiny new
> features in it (which at that time should be reliably too).
>

Straight on to 2.0 as we have broken API compatibility in all sorts of
interesting ways.

> If you want to help us stabilizing master .. try out master and report bugs ..
>
> (I hope thats a short conclusion of the decisions made at the meeting
> - if not please correct me)
>


Regards

Tim
> kind regards
> Werner
>
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Ivan Mincik <ivan.mincik at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi. I did not see any [BACKPORT] flags in commit messages to master
>> branch. What are the plans about backporting some useful patches to 1.8?
>> (I thing there are already some)
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks a lot.
>>
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