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<p>Hi Jeff,</p>
<p>I believe QGIS 2.16 wasn't properly announced yet - looking into <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/2016-July/thread.html">https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/2016-July/thread.html</a> I can't see such an announcement e-mail. However, the webpage lists 2.16 - so I don't really know if it is really released yet or not. It is a bit of a mess. Of course people start tweeting before official announcements ... probably including myself.</p>
<p>But both of your assumptions are wrong. QGIS.ORG is not waiting until all of the packages are created - and none of the packagers are funded so far. Packaging and release is purely voluntary work until now. Also, documentation is only really marginally funded until now - but partially funded by companies who employ documenters (like Camptocamp).</p>
<p>The only "paid" work so far was bug fixing - see <a href="http://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog216/index.html#notable-fixes ">http://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog216/index.html#notable-fixes </a>- we also pay partially the bug management work from Giovanni and every once in a while some infrastructure work, or just recently Matthias Kuhn's work on implementing the test framework for QGIS processing.</p>
<p>Of course this is all up to discussion.</p>
<p>We are about to launch a "QGIS grants" program soon - someone could apply for a grant to do such work (release and packaging). Or PSC decides to pay someone separately for such work - outside of the grant program.</p>
<p>Greetings,</p>
<p>Andreas</p>
<p>On 2016-07-27 14:32, Jeff McKenna wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Hi all,</span><br /><br /> I'm assuming here that you are working closely with William, through the QGIS paid 'bug fixing program' (or whatever we name it, for helping to fund the team for each release). I also am assuming that the green button for the release is pressed once packagers on the major platforms are ready, and the documentation team has finished their changes. Yes packagers and documenters must be included on that team, the 'bug fixing program' or whatever you name it.<br /><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">-jeff</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">On 2016-07-27 4:08 AM, Neumann, Andreas wrote:</span>
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Hi all,</span><br /><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">I hear a lot of requests for the 2.16 OSX packages - also discussed on</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Twitter. I don't know Kyngchaos and I don't want to push him, because I</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">don't know him personally - who is in contact with him? Are there</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">technical issues or just a lack of time? Can we do something to</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">assist/accelerate the process?</span><br /><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Could we setup an automatic build system for OSX in the future, perhaps</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">starting with QGIS 3.x?</span><br /><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">The OSX builds seem to be esp. popular in the media and designer community.</span><br /><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Greetings,</span><br /><br /> Andreas<br /><br /><br /></blockquote>
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