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
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 <li...@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 <cavall...@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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