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

[Pirmin Kalberer]

Hi Jean-Roc,

Am Montag, 1. Juli 2013, 13.01:42 schrieb jr.morreale at enoreth.net:
> 
> Is this going to be an open initiative or limited to a Sourcepole's
> offering ? Will you backport translations ?

QGIS Enterprise is an internal QGIS branch maintained by Sourcepole.
We backport translations as needed by our customers. Currently we have english 
and german speaking Enterprise customers. A french edition could be coming 
soon.

Regards
Pirmin

> 
> 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
> 
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Pirmin Kalberer
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