[Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Thomas

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Thomas Wahlmüller
<thomas.wahlmueller at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I think the problem arises because many people already used QGIS 1.7.
> Now user have the choice to use 1.6 (missing new features, maybe needed)
> or 1.8 (more bugs) (at least at windows). Maybe it could be useful to
> split Development Branch into two parts. QGIS would be providing three
> Versions. Users could use a stable version, a relative stable
> Development Branch (1.7) while Developers are working on next Version at
> Nightly.
>
> Stable: nearly bug free, ?LTS?
>    ^
>    |    Solving Bugs
>    |
> Development: No Blocking Bugs
>    ^
>    |
>    |
> Nightly: Place for new Features, Solving major Bugs
>
> regards
> thomas
>

We've tried all these things and many other permutations. The releases
of QGIS need to be tempered with the realities of life: we don't have
the developers to maintain all these different things. I have agreed
to maintain the 1.7 branch with backported bug fixes (for eventual
1.7.x releases) as trunk marches towards 2.0 and thats already eating
into the time I would otherwise spend on development work. The same is
true with other developers - none of us work full time on the project
and we have to snatch hours to work on it here and there where we can.
So while I would love to see LTS, no bugs etc., the project can't
sustain it at the moment.

Regards

Tim

> Am 05.06.2011 13:19, schrieb Noli Sicad:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think it would be better to release QGIS 1.7 as RC (release
>> candidate). QGIS 1.7RC for now, then it all the major bugs are fixed
>> release QGIS 1.7. Beta is not really good when QGIS has releasing
>> several version of QGIS. Beta is not a good word in my opinion. It
>> denotes that the software is really buggy ;-).
>>
>> Noli
>>
>> On 6/5/11, Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com> wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> We have had discussions like this in the past. Unfortunately the word
>>> 'beta' in software is so overused it has become largely meaningless.
>>> Google mail was in beta for many years and many people used it in a
>>> production environment in that time. Our standard policy with QGIS is
>>> 'Here is a current snapshot of our best work. Try it and if it meets
>>> your needs use it.' All previous versions of QGIS are kept in
>>> circulation so if you do have a major issue with 1.7, file a bug, keep
>>> using 1.6, sit tight and wait for the 1.7.x bug fix releases which
>>> will come out.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Il 05/06/2011 01:06, Goyo ha scritto:
>>>>
>>>>> workflow. OTOH I also think many bugs in the linked report are not
>>>>> really "must fix for release".
>>>> Sounds reasonable.
>>>> So please help us reclassifying these cases.
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
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