[Qgis-psc] What to put in the carousel

[Larry Shaffer]

Hi Tim, PSC,

On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> For Mac the only way I know to test 2.999 is to build it yourself. Larry
> do you have any news on the bundle you were working on? Would you be able
> to get something ready for pre-release testers to work with?
>

I've actually just started working on updating app bundle support:
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/5531

As far as testing 2.99, we could also periodically save 'bottles' (prebuilt
binaries) for the 'qgis3-dev' formula; maybe nightly or weekly? This would
mean doing `brew install qgis3-dev` would require no compiling, just lots
of downloading of bottled dependencies. The current source-only build can
be moved to `brew install qgis3-dev --HEAD` creating a side-by-side install
with periodic bottle. This is the standard Homebrew method of handling
stable and head builds.

Once I get bundling fixed up for QGIS 3, then that periodic build can
continue on to build an .app bundle, after the bottle is uploaded. All of
that will certainly exceed Travis CI job timeout limits. Probably need to
move the macOS CI/build to a Jenkins setup on a dedicated, colocated Mac
Mini, like our setup at Boundless. We use MacStadium at ~$100/month for Mac
leasing. Another option is to buy the Mac and colocate it (cheaper in long
run). This should be seriously considered for project Mac infrastructure
once proper bundling code has been proven to work well.

Regards,

Larry Shaffer
Dakota Cartography
Black Hills, South Dakota
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Boundless Desktop and QGIS Support/Development
Boundless Spatial - http://boundlessgeo.com
lshaffer at boundlessgeo.com


> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> On 05 Nov 2017, at 10:36, Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:
>
> I've put these two banners online now.
>
> On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 7:30 AM, Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> For the testing phase of 2.99 I think we should write a small blog post
>> for non techies on how to install it:
>> - for windows pointing to the weekly (??)
>> - for windows do some screenies on how to install/update via osgeo4w
>> - for mac ... I do not know
>> - for Debian:  compile or ...??
>
>
> ​Sounds like a good idea. For Debian it's http://qgis.org/debian-nightly,
> right?​
>
> For Windows, I'd still like to recommend OSGeo4W installer first and
> weeklies second because it's easier to update it repeatedly during the
> testing phase.
>
> No idea how Mac users can help ...
>
> In the best case, the blog post would be generic enough to be used for
> future calls for testing as well.
>
> Regards,
> Anita
>
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