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

[Agustin Lobo]

Then, in the absence of RCs, having binaries of nightly builds with a
different name so that it
can co-exist with the stable release is even more important for users
to help out
testing.

Agus

2012/5/27 Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com>:
> 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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