[Qgis-user] Unstable 1.7.3 - one specific point is WMS

[Marco Hugentobler]

Hi Jürgen

 >So apparently we are backporting stuff too quick without proper review 
and
 >testing.

Yes, it's true that devs and power users normally work with master for 
the daily work, not 1_7. So backported bugs are normally detected after 
release.

A solution could be that developers don't backport their changes 
themselves (only mark them as candidates for backport). It then would be 
the job of the 1.7 maintainer (Werner?) to do more detailled tests and 
push to 1_7 if ok. Similar to the linux kernel, where they have 
maintainers for old kernel releases (2.4, 2.6).


Regards,
Marco











On 26.12.2011 16:36, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
> Hi Werner,
>
> On Thu, 22. Dec 2011 at 11:27:36 +0100, Werner Macho wrote:
>> As far as i can see i would not say "getting more unstable" in general as it
>> seems to only hit the WMS provider.. we'll see what happened and will not
>> release 1.7.4 until the problem is identified and fixed
> The bug itself wasn't even related to WMS.  The raster layer properties dialog
> just tried to access a radio button for a property that WMS layers don't have.
> Introduced by a fix related to the GDAL provider IIRC.   That was quickly
> backported before the breakage of master was even noticed.
>
> I think the wrong scale stuff in the last "stable" release, was also introduced
> by a quick backport of a commit that broke master.
>
> So apparently we are backporting stuff too quick without proper review and
> testing.
>
> That said, all the talk about quality assurance stuff is nice, but I (still)
> don't think that we have enough resources to properly maintain a stable branch.
>
> And if that's the case trying to might even waste some of it and do more harm
> than good to the project.
>
> I also have the impression - I might be mistaken, that the people actually
> working on master, including me, therefore didn't participate much in the QA
> discussion.
>
>
> Merry christmas,
> Jürgen
>


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