[Qgis-developer] Merging of incompatible changes

[Martin Dobias]

Hi Tim

On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 1:41 AM, Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com> wrote:
> In terms of the release roadmap for 2.0 the following
> items were discussed in the hackfest in Essen as being the key
> features we would hold the release for:
>
> 1) Raster overhaul
> 2) WMTS Support
> 3) Atlas integration for composer
> 4) WCS Client support
> 5) Transactional WFS support for QGIS Server
> 6) SIP Bindings revision
> 7) Symbology overhaul (needs support for random colour assignment and
> property change on multiselections)
> 8) Sextante
> 9) Threading (non blocker wait fro 3.0)
> 10) Labelling overhaul
> 11) Diagrams overhaul (and remove of old implementation)
> 12) Oracle support (non blocker for 2.0)
> 13) Web site and docs update
> 14) Universal usage of expression builder
>
> We agreed that when these features are present we will roll out the
> release, with the hope that that could take place early next year.
> Come end of December I think we should take a look at the items listed
> and if any are obviously not making headway we should remove them from
> the blocker list or find out if there is a way to bring them to the
> foreground. The list above was also not intended to be exclusive, so
> if other developments are offered for incorporation they will be
> considered and accepted / declined on their merits.

Thanks for the clarification. Even though I do not not fully
understand some items, it gives an idea of the plans. Would be good to
have a wiki page with few more details and status of the items: not
started / in progress / done.


> A last 'dreaming of a nicer vector api' note for Martin: Since you are
> adjusting the feature iterator API, wouldn't it also be nice to
> support this:
>
> for reading:
>
>     while myProvider.nextFeature(myFeature):  # or equivalent in new api
>         myGeometry = myFeature.geometry()
>         myFooValue = myFeature['foo']
>         .... do stuff .....

Good news, that's on the branch already ;-)

Cheers
Martin