[Qgis-developer] Dual View: Call for feedback

[Régis Haubourg]

Hi Matthias, I can't test your branch by myself (I don't have time to compile
it ), please consider many testers will give you feedback once this will be
merged in master branch and osgeo binarys. 

All this sounds very good to me, especially preparing relations 1 to many. 

I have some questions about global QGIS governing and 2.0 feature freeze
roadmap.

Before recent API break, joins really needed work to make them rock stable.
It still seemed experimental when using it a lot, and it is a critical
feature for basic cartography.  Users often give me feedback on quite hard
to reproduce-bugs (not systematic, dependant of providers also..):
 - joined table seems to be not used by graduated/category analyses
 - advanced rotation and proportion field neither.. 
 - attribute table shows NULL or ERROR values.. 
 - graduated classification process seems to lose correct min max bounds for
classification process.. 
 - an maybe more (I did create ticket, but recent API break.. broke it all..
)

So, as Paolo said recently, users really need a stable release in 2013, and
as we keep on adding features, and modifying API in the same time, this make
me anxious on future releases we rely on. We already fund bug fixing in 1.9
, I hope I will have a release that won't break those, and that won't add
mor bugs than we corrected previously. I voted For API merge without a 1.9
release with warnings on the fact that we needed to keep big new features
for 2.1. 

I would like that PSC crew gives a clear roadmap of feature freeze for 2.0,
so that we can put $$ to consolidate release candidates during spring. I'm
just asking if dual feature and 1-n relation for 2.0 or 2.1? 2.0 is OK, but
we need to clarify a 2013 roadmap (I need it as I rely on it for 300 users..
) 

If next stable release comes by the end of 2013, it will be very long for
those who already switched from proprietary worl to QGIS and still waits for
all improvements made in 1.9. And I will have trouble against people that
don't like OSS in my corp (yes they exist).  

I'm always ok to fund things and participate, but sub contracting process
prevents me to react quickly (3 months is good).. So I feel a bit incapable
to help when all goes fast out of written roadmap.. 
My 2 cents 
Régis



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