[Qgis-developer] Help me compile a 'what's new' list for QGIS 1.8

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Agustin Lobo <alobolistas at gmail.com> wrote:
> In order for users to help out with this and other issues involving
> testing of the RC
> versions(s) on linux machines, it would be very important to be able
> of installing the
> RC binary version with a different name (i.e., qgisdev or qgisRC).

I just would like to clarify here that after quite a bit of discussion
at the developer meeting in Lyon, it was decided not to do RC releases
for 1.8 and to adopt a more 'master centric' approach to future
releases. There are a number of reasons for this, mainly centering
around that our developer team has limited manpower and the concensus
that maintaining additional branches is an overhead we cannot afford.
Rather our strategy will be to maintain master in as close to a
release ready state as possible, build up a substantial test suite so
this is verifiable and get ourselves set positioned to do release off
master with a fairly short turn around time.

Regards

Tim

> Many users can afford
> regularly using the RC version, which would be the best and most
> simple way of testing and
> detecting (and critically valuating) the new features, but if and only
> if the stable qgis version (currently 1.7.4)
> is still there as fallback.
>
> Not sure how difficult/involved is making this coexistence to happen,
> but I think that the effort should be considered taking into account
> the gain in terms of real life testing.
>
> (I know compiling is an alternative, but it is one that will not be
> considered by most users).
>
> Agus
>
> 2012/5/21 Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com>:
>> Hi All
>>
>> I am starting the 'whats new' list for QGIS here:
>>
>> http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/WhatsNew_18
>>
>> Please feel free to chip in your favourite new things so that I can
>> update the whats new list in QGIS ready for the next release! If you
>> are too lazy to set up an osgeo account to get write access to the
>> wiki, just pop me an email with your favourite new things in 1.8!
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
>>
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