[Qgis-developer] geo-processing tools: fixes, plans and fundings

[Thomas Schüttenberg]

Hi devs!

Within the German user community there is a discussion going on about how to effectively support the fixing of several issues with some essential vector geo-processing tools (e.g. intersection, clip, join attributes) that we think have to work without flaws. [0]
But because of the modular structure of processing and tools in QGIS in general, this topic can also be seen in a broader context. The ftools for example have just been removed in favour of the processing tool box (QEP 36) [1]. 
So in order to make a good investment decision we would like to know, if there are already further plans on your side to consolidate, rewrite or replace (some) geo-processing tools in/for QGIS, which eventually also solve these issues. Would it then make (more) sense to start a crowd funding campaign for this - instead of funding short term fixes on maybe soon deprecated code?

Regards,
Thomas

[0] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-de/2016-April/000072.html
[1] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/54

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