[Qgis-developer] Ugly jumping maps while zooming

[Nathan Woodrow]

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On Tue Dec 23 2014 at 9:31:30 AM Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue Dec 23 2014 at 8:57:26 AM G. Allegri <giohappy at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I agree with Nyall. I think putting hidden "proof of concepts" within an
>> official release doesn't put QGIS in a good light. It could be ok some time
>> ago, when QGIS was a niche, but not today. If a sponsorship campagin is
>> required to complete the development we should pursue different marketing
>> strategies (e.g. blogs, videos showing the upcoming features).
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>> giovanni
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>> 2014-12-22 23:47 GMT+01:00 Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>:
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>>> Sorry, gmail messed up my original reply:
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>>> On 23 Dec 2014 5:11 am, "Paolo Cavallini" <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
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>>> > IMHO removing the function will make much more difficult to attract
>>> > interest and funding to complete the necessary features. My proposal:
>>> > add an option to add the rotation spinbox, deactivated by default, and
>>> > clearly marked as experimental/incomplete. In this way, only
>>> > interested and conscious people will activate it, if they are ready to
>>> > bear the missing parts.
>>>
>>> I disagree - while there may be an issue with the difficulty of getting
>>> wide testing of pull requests, the solution isn't to allow broken code into
>>> master.
>>>
>>> We've recently made great progress in showing that we are a serious
>>> enterprise ready alternative, with the introduction of CI testing and the
>>> proposals for LTS releases. We now need to show that we are serious about
>>> the quality of our code and product by not allowing broken or beta features
>>> into releases. Adding a checkbox to unlock such features isn't a good
>>> solution - it just looks amateurish and hacky!
>>>
>>> As it stands right now, what is the use of this feature? It can't be
>>> used for presentation (no composer support) nor for analysis or querying
>>> use (broken selection and info tools). Without addressing these issues this
>>> feature has no current use case (I may be missing something here, feel free
>>> to fill me in if I am). Sandro has made it clear that he currently has no
>>> plans for tackling these issues before our next release - meaning either:
>>> 1. Our first LTS release will be left with a broken, buggy feature,
>>> which is not a good impression at all for users and sponsors.
>>> Or,
>>> 2. Someone else will have to volunteer their time to fix this code
>>> before release.
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>>> This is a big decision, as it has the potential to set the precedence
>>> for how QGIS is developed. Do we allow work-in-progress and incomplete
>>> features in master, or should they be left in branches and pull requests
>>> until they are complete and largely bug free?
>>>
>>> Personally, I'm strongly in favour of the second option.
>>>
>>> Nyall
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