[Qgis-user] Re: [Qgis-developer] knock knock - 1.7.4 is outside

[Agustin Lobo]

Werner,

Some users (including myself) offered themselves to carry out some
testing of the new releases in order to
at least write a list of the most important "Known Problems". Perhaps
we can do it for 1.7.4,
once the binaries are released,  as a first experiment. Afterwards we
can decide on more formal and organized ways
of doing this. By now the idea would be that each tester would test
those tools that he/she uses the most and/or are most critical
for his work.
We would need a page in the wiki to make a list of the tests that each
user is able to do, and the the results. After a week or so we
could summarize a text to be distributed in the Download page.
Is this possible?

Agus

2012/1/26 Werner Macho <werner.macho at gmail.com>:
> Hi to all Users, Devs, Translators and Community!
>
> As of today we have exactly 56 more or less important Bugfixes and
> Improvements backported to the release-1_7 branch ..
>
> It's been now more than two month since we released 1.7.3 and I think
> it's time to give 1.7.4 a chance ..
>
> And here is the place where you all jump in :)
>
> We try our best to clean out the bugs but as you all know software is
> never free of bugs - but we can try to bring it as close to a bugfree
> state as possible..
>
> My Question to all of you now is:
>
> Anyone of you who is familiar with git and can compile software by
> himself. Could you please checkout the "release-1_7" branch, compile it
> and test it with your biggest, strangest and difficult data you have to
> find out if there are still bugs inside.
> I am not looking for new feature reports or GUI things .. I just want
> everything to work as expected.
>
> Probably packagers could provide some "Release Candidate" Packages.
> My Timeplan for now is to release 1.7.4 before beginning of March.
> But definitely as soon as possible :)
>
> Please help to make 1.7.4 another great release in the 1.7 series ..
>
> If you find a Bug just search on the bugtracker if it already exists -
> if not report it and set the Target Version to 1.7.4.
>
> This would also be a good opportunity for translators to look in the
> release-1_7 branch and finish translating there ..
>
> I know many of you are already using master because of the shiny new
> features inside and because you are able to compile it by yourself (and
> these are exactly the persons i am directing this mail to - but please
> let us not forget all the people outside there who rely on a stable qgis
> 1.7 branch with a lot of fixes.
>
> Thanks a lot for your help and for this great community!
>
> kind regards
> Werner
>
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