[Qgis-developer] Project quality discussion

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2015-11-08 22:36 GMT+01:00 Tim Sutton <tim at qgis.org>:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> On 06 Nov 2015, at 19:40, Alex M <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 8< ————— snip ------------
>>
>> If a company wants something that makes it into Core, it should be
>> pre-approved via a QEP. The fallback should be a plugin.
>>
>> I caution the use of $ to directly influence the QEP review and Pull
>> Request reviews. Some sort of bounty pool, allowing core devs to get a
>> stipend for clearing big reviews might be an option. So companies can
>> contribute to QGIS and that money can go to expedite all QEP and Code
>> reviews, but not a specific one.
>>
>>
>>
>> Agreed -We need salaried QGIS.ORG <http://qgis.org> staff that can
>> review these things independently of who it comes from or if / how they
>> have financed QGIS.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>
> I generally agree, but I would prefer if the salaried QGIS.ORG staff
> would only act as a coordinator in managing the review queue coming from
> not-core devs to guarantee scheduled times (since the core-devs go into the
> quarantine queue with automatic approval if no one raise exceptions) and
> should delegate/outsource the code review job to the core devs (or
> externally if no one is available) and only if/when needed (i.e. because of
> lacking volunteers).
>
>
​Yes that sounds reasonable...​



> We are not moving from a volunteer based project, do we?
>

​Hopefully never, but it would be good to have people that work full time
for the benefit of QGIS too..​



>
> I also wish to thank Hugo for starting this topic, it's not easy to talk
> about this, since it crosses personal choices, philosophical believes,
> economical interests etc...
>

​Yes it's always nice to see how discussion about even difficult topics are
handled in a nice friendly manner in QGIS world...

Regards

Tim​




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