[Qgis-user] [Qgis-developer] Synergy of QGIS Enterprise and QGIS 2.0/Master branch

[Wesley Roberts]

While everyone is helping sourcepole rename their software, here is my 2
cents

"Enterprise QGIS by Sourcepole"




On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Chris Berkhout <chrisberkhout at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm happy for companies to do whatever they want (and are allowed) to do.
>
> As for the QGIS project having a stable branch, I think it's treating the
> symptoms rather than the cause. I'd much rather see the effort that that
> might consume be put into making the main branch more stable. With a strong
> test suite regressions can become very rare, even with constant development
> of new features.
>
> I'm fairly new to QGIS, so I can't speak with a full understanding of the
> current situation. I just wanted to share my hopes for the future of the
> project.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Werner Macho <werner.macho at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> My suggestion to solve that kind of problems would be to just have a
>>
>> "something"|..... based on QGIS
>>
>> but I appreciate the appearance of the enterprise QGIS and hope that
>> it will QGIS itself some push to be more known by companies ..
>>
>> regards
>> Werner
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Giuseppe Sucameli
>> <brush.tyler at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Pirmin Kalberer <pi_ml at sourcepole.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Pirmin what happens if / when QGIS project itself wants to release
>> QGIS
>> >> > Enterprise version - or another company? Maybe it would be better to
>> >> > call
>> >> > it 'Sourcepole GIS' or something to make it clear that it is not an
>> >> > official QGIS product but an official Sourcepole product?
>> >>
>> >> I think a completely different name of a "new" GIS which is "very
>> similar"
>> >> to
>> >> QGIS could be more confusion than one or many QGIS variants.
>> >
>> >
>> > I agree with Pirmin, a product with a completely different name sounds
>> > like a new GIS software.
>> > In addition, not keeping the relation with the QGIS project may damage
>> the
>> > project itself in the long run.
>> >
>> > Why do not put the company name in the front, something like
>> > Sourcepole QGIS Cloud/Enterprise?
>> > This makes everything more clear and allows others companies, but mainly
>> > the QGIS project itself, to create its own version.
>> >
>> > Just my 2 cents.
>> >
>> >> > Also (out of curiosity) what is to stop one of your clients cloning
>> the
>> >> > private source tree that you provide and then making that publicly
>> >> > available - or just pushing it back in to the mainstream QGIS tree?
>> i.e.
>> >> > do
>> >> > you realise any real long term benefit from keeping the tree private
>> in
>> >> > the
>> >> > first place?
>> >>
>> >> We didn't think a lot about publishing our source code branch, yet. So
>> >> this
>> >> could happen anytime. The question why clients do not publish sources
>> of
>> >> commercial FOSS software is hard to answer. Maybe it's a question of
>> >> loality?
>> >>
>> >> Regards
>> >> Pirmin
>> >>
>> >> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_open_source_applications
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> > > On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Yves Jacolin (Free)
>> >> <yjacolin at free.fr>wrote:
>> >> > >> My understanding is that it is a commercial service, so you don't
>> >> > >> have
>> >> > >> any
>> >> > >> licence.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > No.  It's still GPL.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Any support docs, or training sourcepole provide however are not.
>> Only
>> >> > > the
>> >> > > QGIS software bit part
>> >> > >
>> >> > > - Nathan
>> >> > >
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>> >> Pirmin Kalberer
>> >> Sourcepole  -  Linux & Open Source Solutions
>> >> http://www.sourcepole.com
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>> > Giuseppe Sucameli
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