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<p>Dear PSC,</p>
<p>The largest population among our user base is using Windows,
packages to Windows users are shipped through osgeo4w and a
standalone installer which, if I am not wrong, is also built from
the osgeo4w infrastructure. Currently the osgeo4w infrastructure
is under the osgeo umbrella.</p>
<p>Looking at the core team page of the project [1], there are 3
people involved, 2 of them packaging and one of them taking the
big share of things. Thank you Jürgen ;-)</p>
<p>The infrastructure in the background is to my knowledge not
documented and we are happy if it just works. And if it breaks if
there is someone with knowledge and access rights to fix things.</p>
<p>I just stumbled upon a repository from Oslandia [2] that
streamlines the packaging and integrates it with continuous
deployment apparently. Having such a repository under QGIS or
OSGeo umbrella could help to take away the burden of maintaining
the Windows distribution from very few people, having a pull
request review scheme as we have for source code and distribute
the responsibility.</p>
<p>In short, having a repository where package scripts and build
scripts are publicly available, forkable, builds are reproducible
and where it's possible to make pull requests.<br>
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<p>The main question in the first line is probably, is that
something which is considered a QGIS task, an OSGeo task or a task
that individual companies should be taking?</p>
<p>Thanks a lot</p>
<p>Matthias<br>
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<p>[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/CoreTeam">https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/CoreTeam</a><br>
[2] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gitlab.com/Oslandia/osgeo4w/">https://gitlab.com/Oslandia/osgeo4w/</a></p>
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