[Qgis-developer] qgis organigram, code maintainers

Marco Hugentobler marco.hugentobler at karto.baug.ethz.ch
Tue Aug 21 07:56:28 EDT 2007


Hi Paolo,

Yes, it is. Packaging is part of release management, and I think Tim already 
assembles a team of package maintainers.

Regards,
Marco

On Saturday 18 August 2007 08:44:35 Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> I would think also maintainers for packages (win, mac, various linux
> flavours) would be important.
> pc
>
> Marco Hugentobler ha scritto:
> > 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).
>
> ...



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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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