[Qgis-psc] Bugfixing for documentation

[Anita Graser]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 5:42 PM Andreas Neumann <andreas at qgis.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Hm - We always had a separate budget for documentation - totally separate
>>> from the grants.
>>>
>> According to our budget sheet, there's still money in the documentation
>> pot, right?
>>
>
> Yes - but Matthias Kuhn is currently investigating another contributor who
> could work on documentation. So there is a likelyhood that this money will
> be needed anyway.
>
> On the other hand the 10k in the budget for github to gitlab migration
> hasn't been used yet. So I think we can also go a bit beyond the original
> documentation budget, if the suggestion from Matthias (to be discussed
> later) materializes.
>

+1

> Personally, I would prefer if we could find a pragmatic solution so that
>>> work, that wasn't planned ahead, can still be financed. Grants are only
>>> issued once a year - for one-time work - not for repeated maintenance work.
>>>
>>> I think our Python devs would appreciate a complete API documentation.
>>> This seems to be repeating work - isn't the API constantly changing a bit?
>>> Mainly for major releases, but also some additions, fixes, clarifications,
>>> etc. in betweeen?
>>>
>>> I think, in the future, we should declare API documentation as part of
>>> the documentation budget and increase the documentation funds accordingly.
>>>
>> Can't we just do that now. I don't see a huge difference.
>>
>
> yes - I also think we should do it like this.
>

Great!

We could also ask OSGeo if we don't have the funds. (Or have we asked them
>> for anything else this year yet?)
>>
>
> Those are reserved to our upstream qt bug fixes and for WFS3 compliance
> work and tests.
>
The qt upstream work with KDAB is turning out to be quite useful. As a
> first batch we agreed to invest 6.5k € and see how far this would get us.
> Then maybe continue a bit more, if Matthias and Nyall suggest so and we
> still have funds.
>

I see. Good to know that the upstream work is coming along well.

Regards,
Anita
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