[Qgis-developer] Merging of incompatible changes

[Sandro Santilli]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 09:21:46AM +0200, Radim Blazek wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Marco Hugentobler
> <marco.hugentobler at sourcepole.ch> wrote:
> > Would it be an option to branch a 1.9 from current master just before Martin
> > merges the first breaking changes? That way, there would be a version with
> > all the nice 1.9 features and very little API breaks (and 99% of the plugins
> > working). Plus the shapefile encoding fix.
> > I remember though that the 1.9 option was shortly discussed in Essen and the
> > release team was not very pleased about it. I can't remember the exact
> > reasons, maybe it is worth to reconsider?
> 
> Very bad idea IMO. That would result exactly in what we don't want:
> having multiple broken versions with different (not) working features
> available in each one. Again the same problem with breaking API twice,
> not enough resources to concentrate on both 1.9 and 2.0 etc.

I also think 1.9 isn't a good idea.
Rather if there's some manpower, a 1.8.1 would be nice, to fix any
bad bug which is preventing users from staying in 1.8...

--strk;