Hi I really like the idea of a LTS version of QGIS. Is there any chance to see a "community edition" (free) of QGIS Enterprise?
Regards Stefan > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org > [mailto:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] Im > Auftrag von Pirmin Kalberer > Gesendet: Montag, 1. Juli 2013 12:20 > An: qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org; qgis-u...@lists.osgeo.org > Betreff: [Qgis-user] Synergy of QGIS Enterprise and QGIS 2.0/Master branch > > Hi all, > > There were some discussions about the relation of the recently announced QGIS > Enterprise [1] and the upcoming QGIS 2.0 release. > QGIS Enterprise was born out of the needs of our customers for a stable QGIS > branch > with frequent bug fix releases similar to the Ubuntu LTS model. Almost all of > the > professional QGIS users we know, have many custom plugins in use. > Some of these plugins are applications with 10'000's lines of code! So API > compatibility > has absolutly hightest priority for them. > That's the reason we branched 1.9 before the API break to give our customers > most > of the features of 2.0 but let them more time to migrate their plugins to the > new API. > We fixed many major bugs reported by our customers and applied them also to > QGIS > master [3]. The QGIS projects benefits from this model directly, since it > finances at > least Marco working 100% on QGIS core development. And there are not only bug > fixes flowing back into QGIS master, but also major performance improvements > [2],[4]. > We hope very much that we can carry on this synergy for the coming years and > look > forward to see you in Maptember to work together on QGIS 2.1! > > Regards > Pirmin > > [1] http://qgisenterprise.com/ > [2] http://sourcepole.ch/2013/6/17/fossgis-2013-performance-optimised-wms- > services-with-qgis-server > [3] QGIS Enterprise bugfixes ported to 2.0 > - Fix ticket #5584 (crash saving empty geometry) 96a8bd64 > - Always use topological editing if using avoid intersection (where > possible also to background layers) dc074b39 > - Better approach to split lines. Fixes bug #4618 c90870d0 > - Clear rubberband if map tool is deactivated b5a5264c > - Fix double redraw after applying vector properties 89bdb10e > - Fix check state for legend groups restored from project file 31d7f651 > - Format number strings with field precision for display > in attribute table, attribute dialog and editor 6361d19f > - Fix activation of paste action after cut/copy e2c80d35 > - Keep zoom level constant if zooming to one selected point 15e3fc35 > - Fix WFS layer items in browser 5d7ac888 > - Protect point and line pattern symbol layer from eating too much > memory b54c75ce > - Keep selection if exchanging ids for added features, safety check for 0 > geometry in splitFeatures method 4c02d7ff > - Prevent overshoots with line offsets fac2bd78 > - Handle plain/regexp mode for delimited text provider same as for preview > a4d83139 > - Filter string in qgis server: Allow strings and attribute names with > bfde7c83 > - Radio button groups in composer label widget, consider label alignment > in adjustSizeToText 12f09471 > - Mark project dirty in case of composer changes da0e4f34 > - Clear cached geometries after commit / rollback 6bbc149d > - Fix placement of simple markers in cached images 7e793025 > > [4] WMS server performance: > - Improve performance for coordinate reprojection 863da7d0 > - Loop optimisation GDAL provider f424e2aa > - Improve png8 conversion and a18ae684 > - Implement readBlock in gdal provider for performance reason 750579215 > - Performance optimisation in raster provider daa02e3e > - Use 'fast clip' line clipping algorithm for long lines. Huge improvement > for wms benchmark performance (long contour lines) d4f69b37 > - Use coordinate transform cache in maprenderer e0d9796f > - Create pallabeling only once, take crs from cache ea4e77af > - Use CRS cache and avoid sqlite lookup for each request 8dc0135b > - Use CRS cache for faster lookup of crs by authid 15b4843c > > -- > Pirmin Kalberer > Sourcepole - Linux & Open Source Solutions http://www.sourcepole.com > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > qgis-u...@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer