[mapserver-dev] Proposed budget expenditures...

[Jeff McKenna]

No changes to the funding proposal, other than combining it into one for 
2020.   I like deadlines too, but since the amount is so small let's 
combine it into one and handle that later, is my personal thinking.  -jeff






On 2020-05-22 1:06 p.m., Steve Lime wrote:
> I'd be happy to see you take on the 8.0 role, you did a great job with 
> 7.6. That said, are you proposing something different from a funding 
> standpoint? I do think milestones are the easiest way to carve things 
> up, I mean you have to have some way to know when something is done.
> 
> On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 10:57 AM Jeff McKenna 
> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     My honest thoughts when thinking on the MapServer part is to put the
>     amount into a 'release manager' role for 2020, and that would include
>     the 8.0 release.  (thinking along the lines of Daniel's great message
>     from 2020-01-10 where the release manager helps with the initial
>     release
>     plus point/bugfix releases)  So I guess my thinking is that the effort
>     towards the 7.6.0 release helps us build towards the big 8.0 release.
>     (the part in my head that I haven't said here yet out loud is that I
>     also plan/hope to fill the 8.0 release manager role as well, as I see
>     all of the team effort the past month or year spent as actually working
>     towards the 8.0 release).
> 
>     My explanation is not as clear or concise as Daniel's ha.
> 
>     -jeff
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     On 2020-05-22 11:48 a.m., Steve Lime wrote:
>      > Hi all: A few milestones were reached this spring that were
>     identified
>      > as budget
>      >
>     (https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/wiki/OSGeo-2020-Budget)  items,
>      > specifically $500 each for the release managers for MapCache 1.10
>     and
>      > MapServer 7.6. While I'm sure that doesn't come close to covering
>     the
>      > amount of time Jerome and Jeff put in, it's still something.
>      >
>      > I'd also like to propose allocating another $300 for Jeff's
>     handling of
>      > the PHP/MapScript security response - so from the emergency
>     operations
>      > line item.
>      >
>      > That would leave us with $700 in our pre-allocated OSGeo 2020
>     budget for
>      > the second half of the year.
>      >
>      > Thoughts?
>      >
>      > --Steve
>      >