<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi Matthias</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Happy xmas and new year to you! For me I am also fine with repurposing the funds towards packaging but could I ask a few questions about the plan?:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">1) Have your plans been discussed with Juergen? I kinda got the feeling that he is being left out of the loop a bit here , and we are landing up with our traditional 'two of everything' implementation strategy in QGIS. I could be totally wrong about that so please feel free to correct me if I am. Is there a concrete plan to eventually deprecate the NSIS and OSGEO packaging work does? Or is the plan for them to exist side by side (isn't that duplication of effort)?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">2) Similar question about mac packaging, and could you indicate whether the packages will be notarised?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">3) If I understand correctly, the vcpkg packages create MSI installers - are these notarised for windows? Will the end result of the process be our ability to publish QGIS in the MS App Store (and possibly bring donation revenue to QGIS and ease pressure on our download servers),</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Regards</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Tim</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 7:20 PM Alessandro Pasotti via QGIS-PSC <<a href="mailto:qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org</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="auto">+1 from me as well. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thank you for your work.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il mar 24 dic 2024, 11:17 Matthias Kuhn via QGIS-PSC <<a href="mailto:qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org</a>> ha scritto:<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"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear PSC,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I am reaching out to request a repurposing of the grant awarded last year for "Cacheable provider metadata API". This grant was allocated for improving the loading times of providers in QGIS, with a primary focus on PostGIS.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Since the QEP was written, significant improvements in this area have already been implemented through other means, such as the parallelization of loading providers. While we still see potential for further optimizations, particularly in the deduplication of initial requests sent to a PostgreSQL database, addressing these would require a thorough reevaluation and an adjustment to the original scope of the grant.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Meanwhile, vcpkg driven QGIS packages have gained a lot of momentum on several platforms as well as being used by downstream projects like QField, MerginMaps and Kadas Albireo. The demand for mac based packages is seeing a significant increase in interest as well and, as stated in our recent report, over the last few months considerable initial volunteer work has been done by OPENGIS.ch on mac packaging and we'd like to push this through the finish line and create reproducible CI-driven DMG packages.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">After many positive initial discussions with several people from PSC and the community, I'd like to officially ask if such a repurposing of the grant would be embraced by the PSC.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Kind regards and an excellent year-ending
</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Matthias</span></p></div>
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