[Qgis-psc] Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: Acknowledgement of Contributor Guidelines

[Tim Sutton]

Dave if you go ahead and create an osgeo account (unless you have one
already) and I or Gary will give you write access. Just let me know
your osgeo account name.

Regards

Tim

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Gary Sherman <gsherman at geoapt.com> wrote:
> +1
>
> -Gary
> GeoApt LLC
> Chair, Quantum GIS PSC
>
> On Dec 6, 2010, at 6:30, Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All
>>
>> Any objections to me going on to give Dave write access to SVN? PSC I
>> think you need to vote on this.
>>
>> +1 from me.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:27 PM,  <Dave.DeHaan at sybase.com> wrote:
>>> In accordance with requirement #6 of the Contributor Guidelines
>>> (http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Contributor_Guidelines), I am sending this email
>>> to indicate my agreement to abide by those guidelines.
>>>
>>> --Dave DeHaan
>>>
>>> ----
>>> David E. DeHaan, Ph.D.
>>> SQL Anywhere Research and Development
>>> Query Processing team
>>> Sybase iAnywhere
>>> www.sybase.com/ianywhere
>>> Free Developer Edition: http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1016644
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  From:       Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com>
>>>
>>>  To:         <Dave.DeHaan at sybase.com>
>>>
>>>  Cc:         QGIS Project Steering Committee <qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org>
>>>
>>>  Date:       11/30/2010 01:56 PM
>>>
>>>  Subject:    Re: [Qgis-psc] Contributing an SQL Anywhere plugin/provider
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Dave
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 6:58 PM,  <Dave.DeHaan at sybase.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello Project Steering Committee,
>>>>
>>>> I work for Sybase, performing R&D for our SQL Anywhere (SA) product.  SA
>>> is
>>>> a cross-platform feature-rich relational DBMS, whose market niches are
>>>> small- to medium-sized businesses, embedded applications, and mobile
>>>> environments.  Our most recent version (SA12) added comprehensive spatial
>>>> support, modelled after the SQL/MM and OGC standards.  We ship a spatial
>>>> viewer with our product as part of the administrative tools, but it is
>>>> exactly that---a viewer intended for developers or administrators, not an
>>>> end-user GIS application.  Many of our customers are new to spatial data
>>>> and are starting to consider how it might benefit their business.  For
>>>> those customers interested in trying out a feature-rich GIS application,
>>> we
>>>> would like to be able to recommend the Quantum GIS project.  From our
>>>> perspective, enabling QGIS to work with SQL Anywhere could be a benefit
>>>> both to Sybase customers and to the QGIS project.
>>>>
>>>> To that end, I have written a C++ plugin/data-provider combination that
>>>> interfaces QGIS (works with v1.5 and 1.6) with an SA12 (or later)
>>> backend.
>>>> All that is needed to compile them is a few SA-specific header files,
>>> which
>>>> we have released under the Apache v2.0 licence.  To establish a
>>> connection
>>>> to an SA server requires that the client machine has the (proprietary)
>>> SQL
>>>> Anywhere client libraries installed; otherwise a message to that effect
>>> is
>>>> displayed, along with a link to download the free Developer's edition of
>>>> SA.
>>>>
>>>> The plugin/provider code will be released under GPLv3.  Although we could
>>>> distribute it ourselves, we would prefer to contribute it back to the
>>> QGIS
>>>> project so that the SA compatibility is packaged and distributed as part
>>> of
>>>> the main QGIS application.  For convenience, we would also contribute the
>>>> SA-specific headers to the repository (three files subject to the Apache
>>>> license, not GPL).  I would be willing to join the project as maintainer
>>> of
>>>> this code.
>>>>
>>>> I look forward to hearing your thoughts on accepting this contribution.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> David DeHaan
>>>>
>>>> PS - In the interest of full discloser, over the weekend I had a brief
>>>> email discussion with Tim, Marco, and Gary about licensing details.  They
>>>> suggested this posting to the PSC once our lawyers signed off on the GPL
>>>> release, which has now happened.
>>>
>>>
>>> As per our email discussion, I support the addition of this provider
>>> and propose Dave be given SVN access so that he can directly
>>> contribute and maintain his work. Its really cool to have such
>>> additions make their way into the QGIS code base!
>>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>> It would be nice if possible for us (interested QGIS developers I
>>> guess) to test the SQL Anywhere provider. Is there some way we can get
>>> licenses of SQL Anywhere for personal use or is there otherwise some
>>> kind of trial version that we can use for this purpose?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----
>>>> David E. DeHaan, Ph.D.
>>>> SQL Anywhere Research and Development
>>>> Query Processing team
>>>> Sybase iAnywhere
>>>> www.sybase.com/ianywhere
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
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