[Qgis-developer] Merging of incompatible changes

[Paolo Cavallini]

Il 25/10/2012 05:39, Pirmin Kalberer ha scritto:
> We did decide filling the missing gaps to fully replace old 
> symbology and old labelling (Paolo: Kickstarter pledge on the way?) and 
> polishing the many new features already integrated.
Sorry, no progress on this. I've asked for some feedback and help, got
none. Very little time now, planning to do it ASAP. Any help welcome.
> plugins. It will take years to bring them all in sync with QGIS again.
I understand both Pirmin and Martin concerns. I think seriously breaking
the API and all the plugins will be good *if* we have a serious plan on
how to migrate the plugins. At this stage, we cannot afford releasing a
2.0 without plugins, as nobody will use it, and we'll get stuck in the
middle of the transition. This had proved to be a major problem for many
software, sometimes effectively killing it, and we should really
seriously avoid them.
I think it is realistic, on the basis of the response to the request to
move plugins to the new infrastructure, to assume that many developers
will not do the migration in time: are we willing and capable of
upgrading them ourselves, or do we plan to leave them as such?

> We are on a developer list here. As a developer I like the proposed changes 
> very much. QGIS is made by developers, but is also made for users. And 
> sometimes we should care about users - even the 99% Windows users. That's why 
> I'm voting for a polished 2.0 release in a few month with the great feature 
> set we already have.
+1: let's release ASAP.
Please note that, as said in Essen, we can start preparing for a 3.0
release as soon as 2.0 is out, no need to wait years for that.

One side note: current stable version is basically unusable as a default
for all double-byte-characters people (> half of the world population).
The needed change is trivial, a new release could fix this easily.

All the best.

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