[QGIS-Developer] Bug #21460?

[Nyall Dawson]

On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 at 10:52, Cory Albrecht <maps at hanfastolfe.com> wrote:
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> Hello Nyall,
>
> Oh, I am well familiar with the vicissitudes of getting work done in open source projects - It's why I have donated to many opensource projects over the decades that I have been using them, including QGIS. But just telling people "go fix it yourself" is not helpful. To be frank, it makes me wonder if I should have made that donation elsewhere rather than making me willing to contribute to the project by trying to fix a bug or two instead. How do I know that I wouldn't just get another snarky brush off were I to ask for help because my lack of familiarity with the QGIS codebase and the Qt framework?

Hi Cory,

The message of that blog post is definitely not intended to be that
the answer is "go fix it yourself". It's that fixing it yourself is
ONE option, and there's a number of other reliable avenues to follow
too.

If you can suggest any ways to improve the wording of that post (while
keep the core message intact), please let me know.

Nyall


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> On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 7:19 PM Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 at 09:03, Cory Albrecht <maps at hanfastolfe.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Paolo,
>> >
>> > Might I suggest that you consider that not everybody has time to go an learn the codebase of QGIS to be able to know where to start for making changes themselves, even if they happen to know C++? Especially if they have to learn the Qt framework at the same time.
>> >
>> > That consideration might be better than a snarky reply to a polite inquiry. Just saying.
>>
>> I don't believe Paolo's reply was ever intended to be snarky. Instead,
>> he's just trying to inform you of how development occurs in
>> open-source projects like QGIS in order to empower you to be able to
>> get this bug fixed.
>>
>> Nyall
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> > On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 4:30 AM Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi Cory,
>> >>
>> >> On 08/04/19 00:57, Cory Albrecht wrote:
>> >> > I was wondering when Bug #21460
>> >> > <https://issues.qgis.org/issues/21460> was going to get some attention?
>> >> > It's about  QGIS not forming proper PostGIS SQL updates correctly,
>> >> > specifically for null values.
>> >>
>> >> may I suggest you an interesting read?
>> >> https://nyalldawson.net/2016/08/how-to-effectively-get-things-changed-in-qgis/
>> >> Cheers.
>> >> --
>> >> Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
>> >> QGIS.ORG Chair:
>> >> http://planet.qgis.org/planet/user/28/tag/qgis%20board/
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