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<p>Hi Andreas,</p>
<p>thanks a lot, very clear. I agree, bugfixing is probably the
single most important thing we are doing. Better discuss and see
if we can make it more efficient.</p>
<p>Talk this evening.</p>
<p>Cheers.<br>
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<div>Dear PSC and other interested community members,<br>
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I updated our financial situation. Please see the summary at <a
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<div>There are good news and bad news.<br>
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<div>Good news: On the income side we are doing better than what
I budgeted. I still expect maybe up to 10k additional
contributions.<br>
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<div>Bad news: On the expenses side we are doing much worse
than what I budgeted. And there are still a couple
thousand of additional invoices. Most items are more or
less within the budget, except for the bug fixing
expenses. These are a bit of a bottomless pit. One could
go on forever with bug fixing and never be finished. We
already spent 87 k € on bug fixing, more than twice than
what I had in the budget - and there are still many severe
bugs (including data loss, crashes or regressions) that
bother many of our users. I also expect about 10k invoices
around documentation and the QGIS grant from
Matteo/Harissou.<br>
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<div>But I hope this is ok with you that we spend the bulk
of our expenses on bug fixing. As I already told you, the
results of a recently run survey among Swiss QGIS users,
showed that quality is the main concern of our users.
While the functionality of QGIS is already great and often
even exceeds what our users need, they are still bothered
with crashes, data loss or disappointments in speed for
large data sets. We are making progress, but there are
still many issues.<br>
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<div>We should lead a discussion on how we could further
improve the quality of QGIS. I am very grateful that many
of our core QGIS developers also take part in the bug
squashing activity prior to each release. Without that, I
think QGIS would be in a much worse shape. I think
spending funds on this makes a huge difference.<br>
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<div>Personally I wonder if we shouldn't have a break in
features for a period of one release where all of use
would focus on stabilizing QGIS and improving the quality
- both of QGIS itself and also in the documentation. Have
one release windows (4 months) where we do not accept any
major new features, but concentrate on fixing issues.<br>
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<div>I will also make a first proposal for the 2019 budget -
so that we can start discussing it.<br>
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<div>Greetings,<br>
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<div>Andreas<br>
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