<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 3:26 PM Peter Petrik <<a href="mailto:peter.petrik@lutraconsulting.co.uk">peter.petrik@lutraconsulting.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear PSC, </span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We have published a QEP [1] as follow up of our discussions in A Coruña and mailing-list [2] about the topic of transfer of qgis-mac-packager MacOS packaging system to QGIS.org</span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Envisioned solution offers CI (travis) that builds the package on every commit and therefore could be managed similarly to every other QGIS development. It is not dependent on any external Mac Server and will very likely to be more convenient for other people from QGIS community to contribute. Denis Rouzaud can join the initiative and work on CI integration part if this motion go forwards. We estimate the effort at 20 days. Considering the incertitude regarding the CI part, we add a security margin of 5 days which will invoiced only if used. </span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We tried to crowdfund the first part of transition, but we managed to receive just about 50% of the desired amount. Therefore we do not see much potential to try again crowdfunding. We will continue to support and release the unofficial Lutra package until October 2019.</span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If PSC see some ways forward with this motion, Lutra Consulting will be more than happy to implement the proposed solution together with OPENGIS.ch.</span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We appreciate to have the discussion to the point(s) raised in this email and related to this QEP. </span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Peter, Saber and Denis</span></p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[1]</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/143" target="_blank">https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/143</a></span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[2] <a href="http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/QGIS-for-Mac-OS-packaging-and-infrastructure-td5387752.html" target="_blank">http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/QGIS-for-Mac-OS-packaging-and-infrastructure-td5387752.html</a></span></div></div></div>
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<a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-psc" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-psc</a></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ok I know this may sound heretic (please don't send me to the stake or my kids will starve), but did you consider selling the Mac packages for a small fee?</div><div><br></div><div>I mean it's absolutely fair that you require a compensation for all you hard work on the Mac stuff, you well deserve it, but I'm not sure this should be on the general QGIS.org budget.</div><div><br></div><div>The rationale is that the we all know the reasons why developing on Mac is so expensive (well, Mac is so expensive in general) and I think that Mac users should pay for the most of it, not all the users.</div><div><br></div><div></div><div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Alessandro Pasotti<br>w3:   <a href="http://www.itopen.it" target="_blank">www.itopen.it</a></div></div>