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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I agree with Mats. Mr
Coats made a public promise. If he cannot give a proper explanation for his
refusal now he will keep his money but loses further cooperation from developers
or community.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Hubert Kivit</span></font></p>
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qgis-user-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-user-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Namens </span></b>Mats Elfström<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Verzonden:</span></b> Monday, February 08,
2010 4:53 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Aan:</span></b> cavallini@faunalia.it<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>CC:</span></b> qgis-user; qgis-developer<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Onderwerp:</span></b> Re: [Qgis-user] bugfix
and cheating</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hi Paolo.<br>
<br>
This is bad. <br>
I would expect Mr Coats to explain himself.<br>
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Mats.E</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>2010/2/8 Paolo Cavallini <<a href="mailto:cavallini@faunalia.it">cavallini@faunalia.it</a>></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Hi all.<br>
As many of you know, our bug fixing initiative is very successful: with very
limited<br>
investments several users have been able to have their bugs fixed in a very
short<br>
time. Of course, the entire project is based on hard work, volunteering,
goodwill,<br>
and trust. This generally works very well.<br>
Unfortunately I have to point out an unpleasant experience: one user (Greg
Coats)<br>
requested a bug fix, relative to a slow start up, and on date 21.1.2010
offered:<br>
"I will provide $1,000.00 for a verifiably solution that yields start up
times from<br>
.qgs project files of no more than 30 seconds, delivered this month, and
$500.00 for<br>
a solution delivered next month."<br>
The bug was promptly fixed the next day, thanks to Marco Hugentobler and
others. The<br>
Greg asked an OSX executable to check the solution. Next day, this was ready,
thanks<br>
to William Kyngesburye.<br>
Now Greg is surprisingly refusing to donate the promised amount. I believe this
is<br>
unfair, and breaks the trust we are so rich of. In addition, he is complaining
about<br>
the project management, which is even harder to understand.<br>
So, I'll have to be more careful with the next offers :(<br>
BTW: I invite everybody to donate for our upcoming hackfest:<br>
<a href="http://www.qgis.org/wiki/3._QGIS_Hackfest_in_Pisa_2010" target="_blank">http://www.qgis.org/wiki/3._QGIS_Hackfest_in_Pisa_2010</a><br>
Even small amounts (buy your preferred dev a beer, a pizza, etc!) are useful,
and<br>
much appreciated.<br>
All the best.<br>
<font color="#888888"><span style='color:#888888'>--<br>
Paolo Cavallini: <a href="http://www.faunalia.it/pc" target="_blank">http://www.faunalia.it/pc</a><br>
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Mats Elfström, Väpplingvägen 21, SE-227 38 LUND, Sweden<br>
tel: +46 46 145959 / mob: +46 70 595 39 35<br>
alt e-mail: <a href="mailto:mats.elfstrom@telia.com">mats.elfstrom@telia.com</a><br>
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