<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 17 Feb 2016, at 12:32, Neumann, Andreas <<a href="mailto:a.neumann@carto.net" class="">a.neumann@carto.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" class=""><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif" class=""><p class="">Hi,</p><p class="">As you may remember, Strk participated in the paid bug fixing program. He made some comments which I am forwarding to the board:</p><p class=""><span class="">--------------------------- Citing -------------------------------</span></p><p class=""><span class="">This bugfixing drive convinced me even more that QGIS needs to improve </span><span class="">its testsuite framework: it was often difficult to figure out how to </span><span class="">provide a test for a bug, there was no provision to write a test </span><span class="">before fixing a bug (useful to prove the fix is needed), there </span><span class="">is only python testing for the whole PostgreSQL provider and it is </span><span class="">not automatically setup to run. Shall there be a budget to improve </span><span class="">the situation, please let me know as I have a few ideas.</span></p><p class="">------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p class="">And here is the list of bugs that Strk fixed for us: <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F6v4g8Ayb3wIt73rxFKD8h4B95MaTwt-eDit8YvReB0" class="">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F6v4g8Ayb3wIt73rxFKD8h4B95MaTwt-eDit8YvReB0</a> </p><p class="">So the testsuite is definitely an area we could ask a potential QGIS grant person to work on.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><div>Yes this would be a very worthwhile thing to do - though I would like to finish figuring out our strategy for funding etc before we make any decisions on this right now - I’d like us to all be in general agreement as to how we manage funds and what our objectives are.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Regards</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Tim</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif" class=""><p class="">Greetings,<br class="">Andreas</p>
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<span><img height="60" width="60" apple-inline="yes" id="D699407B-0CE7-4F4E-AD61-BAF75C260870" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:DDEF9B12-67C3-4498-BD7D-EC3563CC35A4" class=""></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class=""></div><div class="">Tim Sutton</div><div class="">QGIS Project Steering Committee Member</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:tim@qgis.org" class="">tim@qgis.org</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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