[Qgis-developer] Project quality discussion

[Nyall Dawson]

On 7 Nov 2015 12:22 AM, "Hugo Mercier" <hugo.mercier at oslandia.com> wrote:

> - if a company with no core developer wants to ensure a new feature is
> accepted, it should pay another core developer for the reviewing part.
> Ideally the money should go to the project and the project would decide
> what core developer(s) to pay.
> The details of this process are not very clear. It still has to be
> discussed. But the goal is to make clear for everyone that if you want
> guarantee: you have to pay for it and there is a clear process to handle
> that.

In general I like the way this discussion is going. But I disagree strongly
with this point. It effectively kills off any contributions from
organisations/individuals who want to contribute via code but can't
contribute financially (eg universities, etc). We don't want to lose that.

It also means the entire project becomes 100% dependant on financing. At
the moment a huge chunk (probably the majority) of QGIS work is volunteer
or via non-funded contributions.

Couldn't this just be worked out by sponsored devs/companies on a case by
case basis? Eg if timing is critical then line up a reviewer for speedy
review prior to quoting for work and factor into their original quote the
cost for this.

Nyall

>
> - writing a QEP before adding a new feature is a good way to increase
> its acceptance. But some people have to review it. We may come to the
> same process to pay for QEP reviews.
>
> - at which point we rely on volunteer work is not yet clear. But the
> current guess is: still too much. Having a better idea of the ratio
> between free work and paid work would be profitable for the project: it
> would allow to make clear what the reality of an open source project
> like QGIS is and that too much free work is not sustainable. Paolo's
> mail is about that. The goal is to (begin to) separate clearly what is
> the part of free work and the part of paid work in the project.
>
> - see on the PSC side if it is possible to pay some people to handle
> global maintenance : PR triage, reviews, small bug fixes and so on. It
> does not have to be only one developer.
>
> Thanks for participating in this discussion.
>
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