[Qgis-developer] Synergy of QGIS Enterprise and QGIS 2.0/Master branch

[jr.morreale at enoreth.net]

Hi,

Is this going to be an open initiative or limited to a Sourcepole's 
offering ? Will you backport translations ?

regards,

jean-roc

On 2013-07-01 12:20, Pirmin Kalberer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> There were some discussions about the relation of the recently
> announced QGIS
> Enterprise [1] and the upcoming QGIS 2.0 release.
> QGIS Enterprise was born out of the needs of our customers for a 
> stable QGIS
> branch with frequent bug fix releases similar to the Ubuntu LTS
> model. Almost
> all of the professional QGIS users we know, have many custom plugins 
> in use.
> Some of these plugins are applications with 10'000's lines of code! 
> So API
> compatibility has absolutly hightest priority for them.
> That's the reason we branched 1.9 before the API break to give our 
> customers
> most of the features of 2.0 but let them more time to migrate their
> plugins to
> the new API.
> We fixed many major bugs reported by our customers and applied them 
> also to
> QGIS master [3]. The QGIS projects benefits from this model directly,
> since it
> finances at least Marco working 100% on QGIS core development. And 
> there are
> not only bug fixes flowing back into QGIS master, but also major 
> performance
> improvements [2],[4].
> We hope very much that we can carry on this synergy for the coming 
> years and
> look forward to see you in Maptember to work together on QGIS 2.1!
>
> Regards
> Pirmin
>
> [1] http://qgisenterprise.com/
> [2] 
> http://sourcepole.ch/2013/6/17/fossgis-2013-performance-optimised-wms-
> services-with-qgis-server
> [3] QGIS Enterprise bugfixes ported to 2.0
> - Fix ticket #5584 (crash saving empty geometry) 96a8bd64
> - Always use topological editing if using avoid intersection (where
>   possible also to background layers) dc074b39
> - Better approach to split lines. Fixes bug #4618 c90870d0
> - Clear rubberband if map tool is deactivated b5a5264c
> - Fix double redraw after applying vector properties 89bdb10e
> - Fix check state for legend groups restored from project file 
> 31d7f651
> - Format number strings with field precision for display
>   in attribute table, attribute dialog and editor 6361d19f
> - Fix activation of paste action after cut/copy e2c80d35
> - Keep zoom level constant if zooming to one selected point 15e3fc35
> - Fix WFS layer items in browser 5d7ac888
> - Protect point and line pattern symbol layer from eating too much
>   memory b54c75ce
> - Keep selection if exchanging ids for added features, safety check 
> for 0
>   geometry in splitFeatures method 4c02d7ff
> - Prevent overshoots with line offsets fac2bd78
> - Handle plain/regexp mode for delimited text provider same as for 
> preview
>   a4d83139
> - Filter string in qgis server: Allow strings and attribute names 
> with
> bfde7c83
> - Radio button groups in composer label widget, consider label 
> alignment
>   in adjustSizeToText 12f09471
> - Mark project dirty in case of composer changes da0e4f34
> - Clear cached geometries after commit / rollback 6bbc149d
> - Fix placement of simple markers in cached images 7e793025
>
> [4] WMS server performance:
> - Improve performance for coordinate reprojection 863da7d0
> - Loop optimisation GDAL provider f424e2aa
> - Improve png8 conversion and a18ae684
> - Implement readBlock in gdal provider for performance reason 
> 750579215
> - Performance optimisation in raster provider daa02e3e
> - Use 'fast clip' line clipping algorithm for long lines. Huge 
> improvement
>   for wms benchmark performance (long contour lines) d4f69b37
> - Use coordinate transform cache in maprenderer e0d9796f
> - Create pallabeling only once, take crs from cache ea4e77af
> - Use CRS cache and avoid sqlite lookup for each request 8dc0135b
> - Use CRS cache for faster lookup of crs by authid 15b4843c