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

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi Tim and all,

Documentation of the manual, documentation of Python API and managing 
the bug queue (Giovanni) have separate items in the budget. So far it 
hasn't been used at all - and the end of the year is coming rather 
quickly. I believe it is more a lack of time than a lack of money - the 
issue around documentation.

For managing the bug queue we have a budget of 1k € per release. Perhaps 
this is not enough - I don't know how much time and effort Giovanni puts 
into the issues management. I am happy to increase this amount a bit, 
esp. since we did not have as many releases this year as usual.

As to reviewing the PR queue: no idea how much effort would mean, but it 
would have to be done quickly (e.g. within the next week). Jürgen has to 
comment on that. We can spend some money on getting the PRs reviewed, 
but I would need an estimate (e.g. x days).

Greetings,

Andreas



On 27.10.2017 17:01, Tim Sutton wrote:
> 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 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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