Hi

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Ramon AndiƱach <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 27/10/2012, at 07:41 , Tim Sutton wrote:
>
>> Hi All
>>
>>
>> Firstly my apologies for taking so long to join in to this thread (and
>> for top posting) - I haven't been able to come up for air since
>> leaving Essen. In terms of the release roadmap for 2.0 the following
>> items were discussed in the hackfest in Essen as being the key
>> features we would hold the release for:
>>
>> 1) Raster overhaul
>> 2) WMTS Support
>> 3) Atlas integration for composer
>> 4) WCS Client support
>> 5) Transactional WFS support for QGIS Server
>> 6) SIP Bindings revision
>> 7) Symbology overhaul (needs support for random colour assignment and
>> property change on multiselections)
>> 8) Sextante
>> 9) Threading (non blocker wait fro 3.0)
>> 10) Labelling overhaul
>> 11) Diagrams overhaul (and remove of old implementation)
>> 12) Oracle support (non blocker for 2.0)
>> 13) Web site and docs update
>> 14) Universal usage of expression builder
>>
>> We agreed that when these features are present we will roll out the
>> release, with the hope that that could take place early next year.
>> Come end of December I think we should take a look at the items listed
>> and if any are obviously not making headway we should remove them from
>> the blocker list or find out if there is a way to bring them to the
>> foreground. The list above was also not intended to be exclusive, so
>> if other developments are offered for incorporation they will be
>> considered and accepted / declined on their merits.
>>
>
> I'd like to put an oar in from a user-end of things. If I may.
>
> I'd love to see threading in 2.0. It seems to be something that crops up 
> fairly frequently (e.g. "why does QGIS use only half the available CPU?" and 
> similar). Admittedly this isn't asked as frequently as the "why isn't there a 
> random in the New Symbology?" question but it is a question that is repeated. 
> It certainly seems to be something that people are wanting, and if a window 
> of opportunity exists at the moment, then perhaps it should be taken.
>
> Secondly, when Martin's bits do get merged in would it be possible for all of 
> us users to be reminded that 1.9/master is not stable and things will break? 
> Mailing list and a few blogs?
> I say this because I'm fairly sure there's a lot of us that use 1.9 as if it 
> were stable (or at least as stable as the development versions that turned 
> into 1.7 and 1.8 were) and more than normally this is about not to be the 
> case.

How about we update the splash screen with a suitable 'this is going
to break some eggs' warning....?

Regards

Tim

>
> The list above is really interesting and it's going to be a lot of fun 
> working out these new bits and pieces.
>
> -ramon.
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