[Qgis-developer] qgis organigram, code maintainers

Tim Sutton tim at linfiniti.com
Wed Aug 15 14:34:27 EDT 2007


Hi

I'd be happy to maintain the parts you have put my name against -
perhaps Peter Ersts will 'volunteer' to assist with raster stuff? :-)

Regards

Tim

2007/8/15, Marco Hugentobler <marco.hugentobler at karto.baug.ethz.ch>:
> Dear qgis devs,
>
> In the psc, we recently talked about having more formalised processes and
> clearer responsibilities in the qgis team.
>
> From the development side, I'd like to have code maintainers for different
> parts of the code, e.g. for the different plugins and providers and parts of
> the qgis libs. A code maintainer would review patches for the corresponding
> part, coordinate the efforts of interested developers, answer questions and
> make sure the code is in a clean and up-to-date state. I hope that such an
> organisation will help us to better coordinate our efforts and make it
> clearer for new developers where to ask for guidance. It would also be
> visible which modules currently lack a maintainer (e.g. in my opinion GRASS
> module).
>
> The code maintainers would add one or more lines to their e-mail signature
> such to make it clear for everyone, e.g.
>
> Tim Sutton
> .....
> Maintainer QGIS raster module
> ...
>
>
> I could imagine the following parts of code:
>
> - raster: Tim
> - python bindings: Martin
> - core lib: Martin
> - gui lib: Martin
> - app (dialogs): Tim
> - mapserver export: Gary
> - delimited text: Gary
> - print composer: Steven
> - wfs, wms: Marco
> - renderers: Marco
>
> and other parts that need maintainers:
> - GRASS plugin/provider
> - postgres provider
> - ogr provider
> - gps plugin/provider
> - georeferencer plugin
> - project file
>
>
> What are your opinions about this this in general? Do you like it too or is it
> just unnecessary complication?
>
> For the areas of code, I'm sure I missed a lot of things. And probably there
> are even volounteers for the second part of the list...
>
>
> Regards,
> Marco
>
>
>
> --
> Dr. Marco Hugentobler
> Institute of Cartography
> ETH Zurich
> Technical Advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee
> marco.hugentobler at karto.baug.ethz.ch
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