
<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 26 Nov 2015, at 22:36, Nyall Dawson <<a href="mailto:nyall.dawson@gmail.com" class="">nyall.dawson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">On 27 November 2015 at 00:53, Vincent Picavet (ml)<br class=""><<a href="mailto:vincent.ml@oslandia.com" class="">vincent.ml@oslandia.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Hello,<br class=""><br class="">On 26/11/2015 14:08, Andreas Neumann wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hi Vincent,<br class=""><br class="">While I agree with you generally - please keep in mind that the<br class="">situation is a bit different here. Sourcepole developed this<br class="">functionality already (because their customers needed more reliable<br class="">analysis functions) and we (QGIS.ORG) did not know about this<br class="">development. It wasn't coordinated. Also, no customer from Sourcepole<br class="">paid for it. It was their investment.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Yes, I do understand that the situation is odd, and that it would be an<br class="">exception to a general way of doing things.<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Regardless of whether Sourcepole have already written an<br class="">implementation of this, I would still very much like to see it opened<br class="">up for alternative offers (if this all goes ahead, that is).<br class=""><br class="">There's other developers/companies who would be interested in<br class="">submitting competing proposals for this, and QGIS should use its<br class="">limited funding to obtain the best value/most complete implementation.<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yes that is my thinking too.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tim</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">Nyall<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Qgis-psc mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org" class="">Qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-psc<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><div class=""><span><img height="60" width="60" apple-inline="yes" id="D562FE74-F129-403B-89BD-8C40D9CE4CCD" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:DDEF9B12-67C3-4498-BD7D-EC3563CC35A4" class=""></span><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Tim Sutton<br class="">QGIS Project Steering Committee Member<br class=""><a href="mailto:tim@qgis.org" class="">tim@qgis.org</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""></div></body></html>