[Qgis-developer] Moving towards QGIS3?

[Paolo Cavallini]

Il 23/08/2016 23:14, Nyall Dawson ha scritto:

> We've been closing as they are fixed, so everything still open is
> outstanding.
> 
> I don't think anyone's specifically working through that list yet - we
> are very much still in the "cleanup" phase and removing years of legacy
> cruft.
> 
> There's still a lot of work to do to remove all the remaining
> deprecations, but at least with every removal the code gets a bit
> cleaner and future tasks are easier.
> 
>> Should we prioritize the remaining ite, or redefine them as
>> necessary|useful|nice to have, so we know the minimum set to complete
>> for 3.0 release?
>> All the best.
> 
> So far everything has been done by just a handful of devs in their spare
> time. I'm not sure how useful it is for someone to specifically
> prioritize them. I think it's being driven more by how annoying each
> individual dev finds that part of the API!
> 
> I'd say we are still very early days in the work towards 3.0 and release
> checklists could come later.

Hi Nyall,
thanks for your reply. Here at the HF we are discussing about this, and
it seems to me that the work can be split in two major areas:
* removal of cruft and general cleanup
* implementation of new, better APIs.
It seems that the first phase is being done, partly automatically, in
large part manually, in small steps, whereas a good part of it could be
made automatic, with some perl magic etc.
So my proposal: set aside some of our budget for QGIS grant to allow key
people (I'm thinking especially to Juergen, possibly also Nyall,
Matthias and others) to do the first part as they feel it more efficient
and appropriate. This should pave the way for the second part, which
could therefore be faster.
How does it sound?
All the best.

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