[Qgis-user] Open attribute table in form view by default

[DelazJ]

Hi,
Andreas, I understand your point and agreed with you now that it's clear
you know Stefan.

But like Richard, I also get uncomfortable with such an assertion.
I've already been told such a thing (twice actually). Though my company
doesn't (can't?) finance any improvement in QGIS, I already spend time on
bug reporting and doc writing. And when you're then told because you are
asking for a bug fixing, "if you want it done just pay it", it sounds like
any other contribution you might have done has no real value.
Though I agree developers need money to improve QGIS, we should also better
value time spent by volunteers.

Regards



2016-02-08 15:12 GMT+01:00 Neumann, Andreas <a.neumann at carto.net>:

> Hi Richard,
>
> There 1300! open feature requests in our bug queue. These features don't
> get implemented by accident or on a voluntary basis (maybe some do). We
> have to be realistic. If we want to have good progress, we better start
> sponsoring features!
>
> I am not asking a poor guy from a development country to privately invest
> into QGIS, but a government organization from one of the richest countries
> in the world. I also happen to work for a gov agency (on province level in
> Switzerland). I know that these organizations have enough money to invest
> into such software - they also pay thousands/millions of Euros in licensing
> fees for proprietary software. And by using OpenSource software they save a
> lot and gain flexibility - and they can influence how the software they use
> gets developed. I personally think, these organizations even have an
> obligation to give something back to the OpenSource software they use!
>
> Don't you think that it is quite ok to politely ask such organizations to
> contribute a little bit financially for features they have an interest in?
> If there are many such organizations contributing together, we all profit
> from each other - and the ones who cannot afford to contribute can still
> use it as well. I have no problem with that.
>
> How do you think other OpenSource gets developed? Linux, LibreOffice,
> Firefox, Apache, Postgres, Postgis, etc, etc. - do you think this all
> happens solely from voluntary contributors?
>
> Already in 2010 75% of the contributions in the Linux kernel were
> contributed by paid developers:
> http://apcmag.com/linux-now-75-corporate.htm/ I think it is safe to
> assume that this figure is even higher in 2015. Do you think all of these
> paid devs and the organizations who sponsor them are evil?
>
> Andreas
>
> On 2016-02-08 14:46, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
>
> On 08-02-16 14:37, Andreas Neumann wrote:
>
>
> If this important to you - please consider sponsoring a dev to implement
> this. It can't be very complicated to implement.
>
>
> Can we please(!) stop saying this all the time. I still hope(d) that
> QGIS is a project where people work on a more or less idealistic way on
> QGIS.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard
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