[Qgis-developer] Project quality discussion

[Hugo Mercier]

On 09/11/2015 12:23, Alessandro Pasotti wrote:
> 2015-11-09 11:52 GMT+01:00 Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com
> <mailto:nyall.dawson at gmail.com>>:
> 

> 
>     The way I read this is that THEY would have to pay for their
>     contribution to be reviewed.
> 
>     Nyall
> 
> 
> 
> Only if nobody volunteers to review that for free.


Yes. Or to put it differently: only if THEY want a guarantee on
acceptability / decision delay


> 
> To address 2, the QGIS.ORG <http://QGIS.ORG> will ask if somebody is
> volunteering to review the code in a certain time (and keep the money
> for the project in that case) an hire a core dev to do the code review
> in case no one is available (still keeping part of the money for the
> internal expenses).
> 

I agree. But I am pretty sure if it is known there is money for a
review, nobody would like to review it for free (and it would make
sense). So I am not sure about the first part of your "if" :)

I also think it could generalize to QEP reviews as well.

> This is not killing voluntary work, provides some additional funds for
> QGIS.ORG <http://QGIS.ORG>, reward core devs (and feeds their children)
> and moreover guarantee certain times and a clear and transparent path
> for new features approval process to not-core devs.

+1