[Qgis-developer] QGIS 2.0 and beyond

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Giovanni Manghi
<giovanni.manghi at faunalia.pt> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
>> ALL the blockers should make QGIS really unusuable, otherwise IMHO
>> they shouldn't be blockers. Many of the items in the blocker list are
>> indeed irritations but I think the blocker list needs to be
>> aggressively pruned of items that aren't actually causing crashes /
>> data corruption or serious inability to use QGIS.
>
> as we agreed in Lyon, a blocker is a regression or a new feature that
> does not work as expected, this is the way I tried to maintain the
> tracker.
>
> I would agree to eventually downgrade a few about new features that
> are not perfect, I do not agree to downgrade any regression.
>

Once we have the last two features (new plugin manager and SIP v2 -
latter being a little bit in question still for me) in the code base
we can embark on a campaign to get the blockers (as curated by
Giovanni) closed.  However strategically we also need to accommodate
the possibility that no fixes may be forthcoming for certain issues,
and decide on some e.g. time limit or other criteria for which a
blocker can remain in the queue before it should be downgraded.

Giovanni could you do a triage of the blocker issue queue - it seems
like some could be removed (e.g. http://hub.qgis.org/issues/7619
could be closed?).

I just want to clarify that my position is not that I *want* to make a
release with blockers, but I also want to avoid that we indefinitely
delay the release without a decent plan of action in place of how to
deal with the blockers.

Regards

Tim


> Cheers!



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