[Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] [ANNOUNCE] 2.3 feature freeze begun

Fri May 23 19:20:19 PDT 2014

Hi,

I'm definitely more of a user than developer, & have not compiled QGIS now for several years (no need these days - thank you all!!)
I've been using QGIS under various distros of Linux (Mandrake, PCLOS, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Fedora, Mint, etc) since QGIS v0.2, way back when...

I just built a new 32 bit VM of Linux Mint 17 RC (based on Ubuntu Trusty v14.04) , and applied all updates.
Added the Postgres repository (according to instructions):
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ trusty-pgdg main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
wget --quiet -O - http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -

Added the Ubuntu dev snapshot repository (listed in Jürgen's email) the same way:
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb     http://qgis.org/debian-nightly trusty main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'

Updated the package list:
sudo apt-get update

And then fired up Synaptic to install the software I wanted, which includes (amongst lots of others) Postgres 9.3, Postgis 2.1, QGIS dev (v2.3)

Added my user as a Postgres superuser, created a test db, connected & added a Postgis extension, edited pg_hba.conf to allow trusted access from localhost, reloaded the postgresql service & started QGIS, then connected to my new db.

Everything worked perfectly, & I now have an updateable VM running the dev version of QGIS to test with - including Postgis connection functionality which is critical for me. I concede that this procedure might be a bit daunting for a casual user, but for anyone familiar with Linux, it was just a matter of finding the relevant instructions (and repositories) and going through a normal setup process for installing software apps on a fresh Mint (Ubuntu) install.

Now to load some plugins, data, symbologies, etc & try it out...

My thanks to all those who's work allows people like me to do this stuff, and have it "just work!"

Brent Wood

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 From: kimaidou <kimaidou at gmail.com>
To: Lene Fischer <lfi at ign.ku.dk> 
Cc: qgis-user <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>; qgis-developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> 
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2014 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] [Qgis-developer] [ANNOUNCE] 2.3 feature freeze begun

Ok, sorry for the noise... I did not notice the links in your email pointing to the adequate pages. I am still a bit tired after the great foss4gfr we had in Paris this week ;)

Jürgen, maybe a single very short HTML page in QGIS website with the content of your email would be a good idea ?

Michael

2014-05-23 22:13 GMT+02:00 Lene Fischer <lfi at ign.ku.dk>:

+1
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>Lene Fischer
>Associate Professor
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>Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management
>University of Copenhagen
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>MOB +45 40115084
>lfi at ign.ku.dk
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>Fra:qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] På vegne af kimaidou
>Sendt: 23. maj 2014 21:50
>Til: Jürgen E. Fischer
>Cc: qgis-user; qgis-developer
>Emne: Re: [Qgis-developer] [ANNOUNCE] 2.3 feature freeze begun
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>Thanks Jürgen for this reminder
>We should provide a HTML page with some help how to download and test the master version. Otherwise Windows, Linux and Mac users who are not developpers (and compilers) would not be able to help us testing the master version.
>I remember there is one download page with a new Master Windows build every week. Having the same for other distributions would help. Do you think builders could provide some help to build a  single wiki page "Try the last Master for Windows, Linux and mac distros ? Or this page already exists ?
>Having a single link could help us in this list to call for testers among the end users (via twitter and other channels)
>Michael
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>2014-05-23 21:31 GMT+02:00 "Jürgen E. Fischer" <jef at norbit.de>:
>Hi,
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>I'd like to remind everyone that the 2.3 development cycle ended at 12:00 UTC. We are now in feature freeze on the road to the 2.4 release on 2014-06-20 (almost 28 days away; see also roadmap).
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>Now we, the community, need to prepare QGIS for release. No new features will be added anymore.  Users, if not already begun, should now start extensive testing of master and report bugs on the hub. Developers should move their focus from creating new features to fixing bugs.   Translators can can continue their work (Werner updated the translations in master. Thanks! Note that this might be an incremental process as - although there is feature freeze - bug fixes could still change or add translation strings).
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>The nightly builds of QGIS testing available for Windows, Linux (Debian and Ubuntu) and Mac OS are now effectively snapshots of what's going to be released.  Except of course for the bugs that are going to be fixed until release day.  For Windows there will also continue to be weekly snapshots of the standalone installer that can serve as Release Candidate.
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>Lets keep up working together to make 2.4 another great release.
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>Jürgen
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