I agree with Agustin. Here in my University, QGIS is seen as a 'buggy' software, so some professors and lecturers are not considering it anymore and are choosing proprietary software for the exercises. In such a scenario there is nothing a promoter of FOSS4G (and specially QGIS) like me can do to revert things.
I myself stopped installing each QGIS new version in my laptop because I know there are lots of bugs I don't want to deal with, so I stuck to a version I know works in a predictable way. I've also reported some bugs but nothing seems to happen with the report after a while and that discourages users like me. For me it seems that the bug doesn't care anyone, not even the author of the module/plug-in. I remember some time ago I enjoyed fixing small bugs in the QGIS Table of contents (TOC) but it turned out the TOC was totally changed afterwards (by the way, I find annoying to move layers in this new TOC.) I think you already suggested something like an ongoing contest of bug fixes. I thing this simple thing could encourage people to visit the bug tracker and see what they can fix. Of course, I don't know whether you have enough time to arrange it. Just my 2 cents. Regards, Germán 2011/12/17 Agustin Lobo <alobolis...@gmail.com> > I agree with Paolo and furthermore think that taking action is urgent: > qgis has a serious risk of getting the label of "unreliable tool" and > that label will be very difficult to overcome afterwards. > I personally confess I feel uncomfortable every time I use it for a > course because you never know > what bugs the students are going to find. This last time has worked > quite well (except on Macs, where > it has shown to be very unstable), but thanks to the fact that I > realized the error in georeferencing before the class and > skipped that exercise. Otherwise, can you imagine the opinion of the > students towards qgis after > getting the result shown earlier in this thread? On the other hand, > styling of rasters is so insufficient that I have to use other > software to explain the parts related to operations through histogram. > > I personally think that if we are a sufficient number of users willing > to act as testers we should start doing it right now, not waiting for > the result of discussions any more.We should consider all releases of > qgis as RC for us and publish the results of > our testing as soon as we can after the release. The rest of users > will decide upon our results. I understand the interest of many > developers is having qgis as a test bed and not a producing > environment and I respect that point of view that makes possible that > so many improvements and new tools become widely distributed, but > users requiring a reliable tool must have a tested software with a > clear summary of the operational problems they will face. > > Agus > > > 2011/12/16 Paolo Cavallini <cavall...@faunalia.it>: > > Il 16/12/2011 18:53, Werner Macho ha scritto: > > > >> I dont think we need a Release Candidate cycle - From my point that will > >> bring only more "confuse" into the release cycle.. > > > > So why most respected and established projects follow this route? > > Now QGIS is used very widely in professional contexts, and releasing > supposedly > > stable packages with nasty regressions (as it is happening) brings no > good to our > > users and reputation. > > I think our QA approach should improve, one way or another. > > All the best. > > -- > > Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia > > www.faunalia.eu > > Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc > > _______________________________________________ > > Qgis-developer mailing list > > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > -- ----------- |\__ (:>__)( |/ Soluciones Geoinformáticas Libres http://geotux.tuxfamily.org/
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