[QGIS-Developer] Bug #21460?

[Peter Petrik]

Hi,

we have bug-fix period before each release which is funded by QGIS.org from
donations. So usually bugs that are critical/regression/crash/corrupt data
are fixed during that period for LTR and PR.

Cheers,
Peter

On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 3:41 AM Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 at 10:52, Cory Albrecht <maps at hanfastolfe.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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
>
>
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 7:19 PM Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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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