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

Fri May 23 19:32:42 PDT 2014

Hey Brent,

You should check out the PostGIS docker images, makes it even easier to get
going.

Nathan
On May 24, 2014 12:26 PM, "Brent Wood" <pcreso at pcreso.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>   ------------------------------
>  *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
>
>
>  *Lene Fischer*
>  Associate Professor
>
>  *Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management*
>  University of Copenhagen
>
>  MOB +45 40115084
>  lfi at ign.ku.dk
>
>
>  [image: SCIENCE_bomaerke_UK]
>
>
> *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
>
>    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
>
>  2014-05-23 21:31 GMT+02:00 "Jürgen E. Fischer" <jef at norbit.de>:
>  Hi,
>
> 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<http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?p0=1440&iso=20140620T12&year=2014&month=6&day=20&hour=12&min=0&sec=0&msg=2.4%20Release>(almost 28 days away; see also
> roadmap<http://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/development/index#road-map.html>
> ).
>
> 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<http://hub.qgis.org/>.
> *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).
>
> The nightly builds of QGIS testing available for Windows<http://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#windows>,
> Linux (Debian <http://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#id3>and
> Ubuntu<http://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#qgis-testing>)
> and Mac OS <http://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#id13>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<http://www.qgis.org/downloads/weekly/>
> .
>
> Lets keep up working together to make 2.4 another great release.
>
>
> Jürgen
>
>
>  --
>
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>
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>
> Software Engineer         D-26506 Norden            http://www.norbit.de
>
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>
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