[Qgis-developer] qgis organigram, code maintainers

[Marco Hugentobler]

Martin and Tim,

Thanks for your feedback and for the willingness to maintain the code. I will 
adapt the draft organigram accordingly.

Gary and Steven,

Is it ok for you to be code maintainer for the code parts mentioned in my 
previous e-mail?

Best regards,
Marco 


On Wednesday 15 August 2007 16:20:20 Marco Hugentobler wrote:
> 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