[Qgis-developer] Requesting bug fix extension through weekend

[Larry Shaffer]

Hi Jürgen,

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Jürgen E. <jef at norbit.de> wrote:

> Hi Larry,
>
> On Thu, 20. Feb 2014 at 09:45:42 -0700, Larry Shaffer wrote:
> > I'm definitely in favor of a set release schedule. Though I've missed
> much of
> > the 2.1 development cycle, I feel an obligation to finish fixing some of
> the
> > more serious labeling bugs. Towards this goal, I'd like to work through
> > Sunday on those issues, if it is OK to do so.
>
> If we release last minute on Friday - and I should really have set a exact
> time
> and zone beforehand - at say Anchorage time, we still have about 1 day,
> 14hrs[1] to work on 2.1 before it is branch 2.2.
>

Seems appropriate to freeze at the end of Gary's time zone.  :-)


> Although that will be 10am on Saturday for me - so at least 10hrs of
> precious
> packaging time gone ;)
>
> But to quote Tim: "We're not going anywhere".  There will still be bugs in
> QGIS
> 2.3 to work on after the release.  And I trust that you're not going to
> stop
> bug fixing just because the fixes don't make it into 2.2.
>

I'll just do what I can today and tomorrow. I'll keep working on bugs (of
course :-). If someone takes up maintaining a 2.2.1 bug fix release branch,
I'll backport any of my post-2.2-release bug fix commits.


> Of course that's a bit odd and it's an relative arbitrarily set date (and
> time
> and zone) - but I'd still like to keep it.
>
> > With the new local unit test server classes, I feel pretty confident now
> that
> > any unit tests I make, to ensure the labeling bugs are fixed, should be
> valid
> > across all outputs. But, I have now run out of time.
>
> Good job.  Although we now need lighttp and spawn-cgi now, don't we?  I saw
> something in the cdash logs.  Probably something I need to add to osgeo4w.
>

Yes, please do add those to osgeo4w, if possible. QgsLocalServer can be
config'd to work with the osgeo4w Apache and some FCGI spawning utility (or
as an Apache-spawned FCGI), but I think Apache is a bit too much of a
resource hog just to run a local QGIS Server with single connection, e.g.
for unit tests or local previewing.

We discussed before adding lighttpd/spawn-fcgi to the QGIS src build, but
opted for external dependencies, which is what I built the new
QgsLocalServer around. If the local QGIS Server Preview plugin gets
finished [0, mockup], and is considered for core adoption, maybe an
internal build would be nice. The latest versions of lighttpd/spawn-cgi
have CMake build setups [1,2].

Also, I didn't have time, but want to add a FindLocalServer.cmake module,
which would define:

* LOCALSERVER_FOUND
* WEBSERVER_EXECUTABLE
* FCGISPAWN_EXECUTABLE

That module would be run if ENABLE_TESTS=ON and would look for pairs of
web/fcgi-spawn executables that are known to work well together. To pass
the found executable paths to the Python test modules, two
SET(ENV{QGIS_*_EXECUTABLE}) could be added in UsePythonTest.cmake, or the
paths can be written to a file, like is done with qgisbuildpath.txt. Then,
QgsLocalServer class could just be set up to look for either.

> If I could work from now through Sunday, it would be very productive
> towards
> > labeling fixes for this release. If not, I understand and will do what I
> can
> > today and tomorrow to wrap things up and commit what's working.  I will
> > endeavor to avoid such extension requests in the future.
>
> So we need to coordinate that I don't branch between two of your possibly
> dependant last minute commits?  The interruption by branching should be
> short.
>

Ok. I'll try not to commit at the last second. :-) Helpful countdown clock.
Thanks.


[0] https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ymqp2l1prz63iim/15RN8shVF3
[1] http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/repository/show/trunk
[2] http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/spawn-fcgi/repository/show/trunk

Regards,

Larry


> Jürgen
>
> [1]
> http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20140221T235900&p0=18&msg=QGIS+2.2+Release
>
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