[Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] Synergy of QGIS Enterprise and

Pirmin Kalberer pi_ml at sourcepole.com
Mon Jul 1 04:38:42 PDT 2013 

Am Montag, 1. Juli 2013, 21.31:00 schrieb Noli Sicad:
> So, if It (QGIS Enterprise) is GPL, why Stefan is asking for
> "community edition" (free) of QGIS Enterprise?

I guess Stefan would like to see a community maintained stable branch of QGIS. 
This was discussed a few times on this list and was actually done for older 
QGIS versions, but there were not enough resources for maintaining stable 
branches anymore.

Pirmin

> 
> On 7/1/13, Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  QGIS 2.0/Master branch
> > 
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
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> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> > 
> > It is GPL
> > 
> > Sent from some fancy phone looking thingo
> > From: Noli Sicad
> > Sent: 1/07/2013 9:16 PM
> > To: Ziegler Stefan
> > Cc: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org; qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
> > Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] Synergy of QGIS Enterprise
> > and QGIS 2.0/Master branch
> > 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
> >> s=
> > 
> > ee
> > 
> >> a "community edition" (free) of QGIS Enterprise?
> >> 
> >> Regards
> >> Stefan
> >> 
> >>> -----Urspr=C3=BCngliche 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
> >>> a=
> > 
> > ll
> > 
> >>> 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
> >>> A=
> > 
> > PI
> > 
> >>> 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
> >>> t=
> > 
> > o
> > 
> >>> 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
> >>> i=
> > 
> > t
> > 
> >>> finances at
> >>> least Marco working 100% on QGIS core development. And there are not
> >>> onl=
> > 
> > y
> > 
> >>> 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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