Rif: [Qgis-developer] Backporting bugs for 1.7.5

[jr.morreale at enoreth.net]

Bug reports are the place to go for such a thing, no need to create a 
new space.

On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 11:24:47 -0300, Etienne Tourigny wrote:
> OK, I guess that most (all) people that use master are capable of
> doing this (as I am), but how about those who cannot develop QGis or
> do not have the time to do so?
>
> I guess I am asking if we could have a central bug entry/wiki page 
> for
> users to write their backport requests.
>
> For example, It would be great to have the browser dock (and recent
> bugfixes) in 1.8.
>
> Thanks,
> Etienne
>
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:18 AM,  <jr.morreale at enoreth.net> wrote:
>> Create an account on github.com
>>
>> Fork https://github.com/qgis/Quantum-GIS
>>
>> 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