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

[Noli Sicad]

Hi,

What is the license of QGIS Enterprise?

Noli



On 7/1/13, Ziegler Stefan <Stefan.Ziegler at bd.so.ch> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I really like the idea of a LTS version of QGIS. Is there any chance to see
> a "community edition" (free) of QGIS Enterprise?
>
> Regards
> Stefan
>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>> [mailto:qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] Im
>> Auftrag von Pirmin Kalberer
>> Gesendet: Montag, 1. Juli 2013 12:20
>> An: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org; qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
>> Betreff: [Qgis-user] Synergy of QGIS Enterprise and QGIS 2.0/Master
>> branch
>>
>> 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
>>
>> --
>> Pirmin Kalberer
>> Sourcepole  -  Linux & Open Source Solutions http://www.sourcepole.com
>>
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