[QGIS-Developer] Feature freeze: Paid developer activities for QGIS 3.0

[Tim Sutton]

Hi all

According to our release schedule we now hit feature freeze:

2.99 in feature freeze since 10/27/2017, 2:00:00 PM

I am wondering what we will do with all the Pull Requests sitting in the queue (currently 98) if people put PR’s into the queue and nobody reviewed them / ok'd applying them? For example we (Kartoza) have https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/5379 <https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/5379> which I think is important to apply for 3.0. I am sure there are many others in the queue that didn’t make it the code base before feature freeze.

My long term vision for QGIS is that we (QGIS.ORG <http://qgis.org/>) eventually hire some professional (as in paid, not volunteers) developers, documenters etc. to take care of house keeping things like reviewing PRs, fixing bugs on a more sustained basis, maintaining the web site, infrastructure etc. For the short term we have already earmarked 54 days of paid effort for bug fixing leading up to the QGIS 3.0 release which is really great. Andreas will correct me if I am wrong but I am sure we still have budget to support more than 54 days of paid effort by core developers and it would be really great to also include people like Giovanni Manghi (bug triaging), Yves Jacolin, Harrisou (documentation) and other contributors into the paid contributor programme leading up to the release.

But what about the PR queue? Is someone interested and capable of devoting some days (on a for-pay basis) to go through and apply all the ‘obvious’ PRs and dig in to the less trivial ones? Andreas can we support this as well via our budget?

Regards

Tim

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