Rif: [Qgis-developer] Backporting bugs for 1.7.5

[jr.morreale at enoreth.net]

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Make the modifications and then push it to master or 1.8, add the tag 
[BACKPORT] to your pull request

On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 11:14:01 -0300, Etienne Tourigny wrote:
> OK got it.
>
> Is there a central place we can request for back-porting of specific
> features/bugfixes to 1.8 ?
>
> Regards,
> Etienne
>
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:40 AM,  <jr.morreale at enoreth.net> wrote:
>> No because master is already far beyond the existing 1.8 branch and 
>> breaks
>> the 1.x API
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 10:31:53 -0300, Etienne Tourigny wrote:
>>>
>>> Would it make sense marking the master branch as 1.8 instead of 
>>> having
>>> to backport many things?
>>>
>>> Etienne
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Werner Macho 
>>> <werner.macho at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> hi!
>>>> It seems that 1.8 will overrule the 1.7 branch ..
>>>> As 1.8 prepares the way for 2.0 and has much more features than 
>>>> 1.7
>>>> and it seems that 1.8 will be here in about a month (and will also
>>>> stay a lot longer than 1.7) it seems better to concentrate on
>>>> releasing 1.8 (I know there are still bugs in 1.7) ..
>>>> As Paolo already said we lack in manpower to prepare 3 different
>>>> branches (1.7, 1.8 and master).
>>>> So please wait a little more for the Lyon HF - it seems that 1.8 
>>>> is on
>>>> its way ..
>>>>
>>>> After 1.8 release we will collect (and hopefully clean the 
>>>> bugtracker)
>>>> new backport bugs for 1.8
>>>>
>>>> kind regards
>>>> Werner
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Paolo Cavallini 
>>>> <cavallini at faunalia.it>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Il 02/03/2012 07:45, luca_manganelli at comune.trento.it ha scritto:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Agreed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> +1
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I know I'm boring, but backporting requires some manpower we have
>>>>> difficulties
>>>>> allocating now. Please consider helping directly with it, or 
>>>>> sponsoring
>>>>> it.
>>>>> I agree, it would be really good. We just discovered the road 
>>>>> graph
>>>>> plugin is
>>>>> non-functional, for instance.
>>>>> All the best.
>>>>> --
>>>>> Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia
>>>>> www.faunalia.eu
>>>>> Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc