I agree Martin, but I would hope that (at least) some of the major bugs reported for 1.7/1.7.1 will be solved before a new release. The risk is to provide new features, but loosing stability for the ones users are used to.
giovanni 2011/10/19 Martin Dobias <[email protected]> > Hi devs > > looking at the amount of time (~6 months) and commits (~900) since the > 1.7 release I am wondering whether it would not be reasonable to make > also 1.8 release. Originally we wanted 1.7 to be the last 1.x feature > release, however the master branch is in a good shape and no API > breakage happened until now. Once we will start breaking things it > will take some time (e.g. 6-9 months) until we will be able to release > 2.0 and it would be a shame not to deliver the recent goodies for such > a long time. > > This is an incomplete list of main new features in master branch since 1.7: > - globe plugin > - road graph plugin > - zonal stats plugin > - browser (dock widget + standalone app) > - customization > - lots of server updates > - symbology: ellipses with data-defined fields, line patterns, point > patterns > - 64-bit feature ids > - expressions instead of search strings > - generic import layer > - plenty of bugfixes and small improvements > > If there is a consensus I guess the release could happen soon, > sometime in mid-November. > > Regards > Martin > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >
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