[QGIS-Developer] grant proposal

[Alessandro Pasotti]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 9:33 AM Denis Rouzaud <denis.rouzaud at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to share my concern about the grant proposal and voting process.
> I believe we have some serious weaknesses in this process, but sadly I
> don't have perfect solutions to propose.
>
> First, I felt not completely honest while voting: I had 2 proposals and
> one of my colleagues had another one. Can I be neutral and objective?
> Probably not.
> The only solution which came to my mind is to prevent people from voting
> on their own or voting at all if they anything submitted. But looking at
> the people actually writing the proposals, it would be a non-sense to
> prevent them from voting as they are the most aware of the QGIS core code.
>
> It made me think of how voting modifications of the constitution happens
> in Switzerland: the executive is sending out voting recommendations. This
> could be an approach, that someone (PSC? a dedicated group?) gives a
> technical advice on the proposals. But here again, it might be difficult to
> be objective and mostly politically quite risky.
>
> This brings me to another issue: some proposal don't leave room for
> technical discussion. On this part, I think that we should make writing a
> QEP mandatory as it should be the place to discuss the proposal and to
> raise concerns. What happens if a grant proposal is accepted but not its
> implementation?
>

Denis,

I second this last proposal.

Thanks for raising the issue.

-- 
Alessandro Pasotti
w3:   www.itopen.it
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