[Qgis-developer] QEP - Proposal for QGIS 3.0 after 2.14

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hi

On 10/24/2015 01:27 PM, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
> Hi Mathieu,
>
> On Sat, 24. Oct 2015 at 09:44:31 +0700, Mathieu Pellerin wrote:
>> On a psychological level, as the heavy development of new features has in the
>> past mostly taken place on the master branch, it'd make it clearer to devs
>> that the heavy feature development takes place there, and not on the 2.14
>> LTR branch.
> Like symbology-ng, multithreaded rendering and the new geometry classes?  I
> think most major features have been developed in a separate branch and
> then merged into master, when they reached a good enough state.
>
> I think master should constantly be in a reasonably good state - which the
> Qt5/PyQt5/Python3 branch will probably initially not be.   But hopefully after
> four month of work it will - ready to me merged back into master.
>
> And as for new features in 2.14 I'm not so sure either - new features don't
> help with the porting.  And who adds features must be aware, that it also needs
> to be mergable into the other branch or if that's not possible reimplemented
> for it.  That should keep people from doing major stuff unless they really are
> prepared to do it twice.
>
> I'd say we should replace master with the other branch after 2.14 (like in [0]).

Can we not just develop in a separate branch, merge features back into
master whenever they are ready. Be it before or after release of 2.14 LTR.

I am afraid that working on two separate branches will effectively lead
to imporant work being done twice. Bugfixes forgotten to be ported...

Why not:

 * Branch off one py3/pyqt5 development branch now.
 * Introduce a compile time switch to control if python2 or python3 code
binaries should be compiled
 * Merge back into master
 * Release 2.14 (For which the release will happen with python2, pyqt4
but which supports python3 and pyqt5)
 * Drop deprecated stuff
 * Merge API breaking features targetted for QGIS 3.

Matthias

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> Jürgen
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> [0] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2862590/how-to-replace-master-branch-in-git-entirely-from-another-branch).
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