[Qgis-user] [Qgis-developer] Synergy of QGIS Enterprise and QGIS 2.0/Master branch

[Pirmin Kalberer]

Hi Noli,

Am Montag, 1. Juli 2013, 21.16:36 schrieb Noli Sicad:
> 
> What is the license of QGIS Enterprise?

QGIS Enterprise is GPL licensed and the source code is available for all 
customers.

Pirmin

> 
> On 7/1/13, Ziegler Stefan <Stefan.Ziegler at bd.so.ch> wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I really like the idea of a LTS version of QGIS. Is there any chance to
> > see
> > a "community edition" (free) of QGIS Enterprise?
> > 
> > Regards
> > Stefan
> > 
> >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> >> Von: qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> >> [mailto:qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] Im
> >> Auftrag von Pirmin Kalberer
> >> Gesendet: Montag, 1. Juli 2013 12:20
> >> An: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org; qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> >> Betreff: [Qgis-user] Synergy of QGIS Enterprise and QGIS 2.0/Master
> >> branch
> >> 
> >> Hi all,
> >> 
> >> There were some discussions about the relation of the recently announced
> >> QGIS
> >> Enterprise [1] and the upcoming QGIS 2.0 release.
> >> QGIS Enterprise was born out of the needs of our customers for a stable
> >> QGIS branch
> >> with frequent bug fix releases similar to the Ubuntu LTS model. Almost
> >> all
> >> of the
> >> professional QGIS users we know, have many custom plugins in use.
> >> Some of these plugins are applications with 10'000's lines of code! So
> >> API
> >> compatibility
> >> has absolutly hightest priority for them.
> >> That's the reason we branched 1.9 before the API break to give our
> >> customers most
> >> of the features of 2.0 but let them more time to migrate their plugins to
> >> the new API.
> >> We fixed many major bugs reported by our customers and applied them also
> >> to QGIS
> >> master [3]. The QGIS projects benefits from this model directly, since it
> >> finances at
> >> least Marco working 100% on QGIS core development. And there are not only
> >> bug
> >> fixes flowing back into QGIS master, but also major performance
> >> improvements
> >> [2],[4].
> >> We hope very much that we can carry on this synergy for the coming years
> >> and look
> >> forward to see you in Maptember to work together on QGIS 2.1!
> >> 
> >> Regards
> >> Pirmin
> >> 
> >> [1] http://qgisenterprise.com/
> >> [2]
> >> http://sourcepole.ch/2013/6/17/fossgis-2013-performance-optimised-wms-
> >> services-with-qgis-server
> >> [3] QGIS Enterprise bugfixes ported to 2.0
> >> - Fix ticket #5584 (crash saving empty geometry) 96a8bd64
> >> - Always use topological editing if using avoid intersection (where
> >> 
> >>   possible also to background layers) dc074b39
> >> 
> >> - Better approach to split lines. Fixes bug #4618 c90870d0
> >> - Clear rubberband if map tool is deactivated b5a5264c
> >> - Fix double redraw after applying vector properties 89bdb10e
> >> - Fix check state for legend groups restored from project file 31d7f651
> >> - Format number strings with field precision for display
> >> 
> >>   in attribute table, attribute dialog and editor 6361d19f
> >> 
> >> - Fix activation of paste action after cut/copy e2c80d35
> >> - Keep zoom level constant if zooming to one selected point 15e3fc35
> >> - Fix WFS layer items in browser 5d7ac888
> >> - Protect point and line pattern symbol layer from eating too much
> >> 
> >>   memory b54c75ce
> >> 
> >> - Keep selection if exchanging ids for added features, safety check for 0
> >> 
> >>   geometry in splitFeatures method 4c02d7ff
> >> 
> >> - Prevent overshoots with line offsets fac2bd78
> >> - Handle plain/regexp mode for delimited text provider same as for
> >> preview
> >> 
> >>   a4d83139
> >> 
> >> - Filter string in qgis server: Allow strings and attribute names with
> >> bfde7c83
> >> - Radio button groups in composer label widget, consider label alignment
> >> 
> >>   in adjustSizeToText 12f09471
> >> 
> >> - Mark project dirty in case of composer changes da0e4f34
> >> - Clear cached geometries after commit / rollback 6bbc149d
> >> - Fix placement of simple markers in cached images 7e793025
> >> 
> >> [4] WMS server performance:
> >> - Improve performance for coordinate reprojection 863da7d0
> >> - Loop optimisation GDAL provider f424e2aa
> >> - Improve png8 conversion and a18ae684
> >> - Implement readBlock in gdal provider for performance reason 750579215
> >> - Performance optimisation in raster provider daa02e3e
> >> - Use 'fast clip' line clipping algorithm for long lines. Huge
> >> improvement
> >> 
> >>   for wms benchmark performance (long contour lines) d4f69b37
> >> 
> >> - Use coordinate transform cache in maprenderer e0d9796f
> >> - Create pallabeling only once, take crs from cache ea4e77af
> >> - Use CRS cache and avoid sqlite lookup for each request 8dc0135b
> >> - Use CRS cache for faster lookup of crs by authid 15b4843c
> >> 
> >> --
> >> Pirmin Kalberer
> >> Sourcepole  -  Linux & Open Source Solutions http://www.sourcepole.com
> >> 
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