I'd like to bring up to the users list the thread on the release of 1.7 that was raised by Paolo in the developers list: http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/release-of-1-7-td6421690.html
I take the liberty of including here the two most relevant messages (in my opinion): Paolo Cavallini: "Hi all. Am I the only one to feel uncomfortable releasing 1.7 with 60 bugs classified as blocking? https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/report/16 IMVHO we should examine them, and either reclassify them or solve them before release. My feeling is that 1.7 at this stage has significantly more issues than most previous versions, and could be disappointing for many of our users. I hope to be wrong, of course. All the best. " Nathan Woodrow: "I think releasing as a beta would be a good idea, that way we get 1.7 release out but users know it's not fully done. This way it also gives us more time to do bug fixing." In my opinion, I think a beta release is a good compromise. A "final" release plenty of bugs would be the worst service that could be done to QGIS, as QGIS would be regarded by users as an experimental toy for developers. The worst scenario is a user thinking that a project can be performed with QGIS and then finding out that there are several important bugs across the processing chain. This leaves to frustration first and to loss of confidence soon afterwards. A totally different situation is that the user knows that he is using a beta, with a clearly stated "known bugs" list. The same product would raise admiration and expectation instead of frustration. Agus _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user