[QGIS-Developer] The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing

[Patrick Dunford]

Sorry. I have appreciated since writing this email that you guys could 
not have foreseen how the project properties dialog box crashes because 
no one else reported that as a bug.

There's a paradox (or tension) here: to get the best testing you have to 
be using this software every day to do as many things as possible. That 
creates issues when something breaks in a project file, if it's hard to 
fix easily.

Every time the CRS changed I changed it back but now it crashes when I 
try to do that. The changes in layer styles that don't migrate was small 
compared to being unable to set the correct CRS on a project because the 
CRS gui crashes.


On 18/12/17 18:47, Nyall Dawson wrote:
> On 16 December 2017 at 22:32, Patrick Dunford <enzedrailmaps at gmail.com> wrote:
>> With a recent change in masters the project file format has been broken yet
>> again (it seems) and now instead of recognising EPSG:3857 on project files
>> that are not very old, it comes up as USER:100029
>>
>> Now ordinarily this wouldn't be an issue, just open project properties and
>> change the CRS. Except there is a well documented bug that makes the
>> software crash when you try to do this.
>>
>> As it's not possible in any way for me to fix this latest inability to
>> recognise the CRS from the previous project file from a slightly earlier
>> version of master, maybe it would be helpful to document how we could
>> actually insert the CRS into the project file by hand so it is correct.
>>
> Patrick,
>
> Your bug testing is very much appreciated - the way you word your
> email subjects, not so.
>
> Nyall