[QGIS-Developer] grant proposal

DelazJ delazj at gmail.com
Tue Jun 25 00:46:20 PDT 2019


Hi,

For the record,
http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Grant-application-suggestions-for-next-time-td5368078.html
from last year

Regards,
Harrissou

Le mar. 25 juin 2019 à 09:38, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com> a
écrit :

>
>
> 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.
>
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> Alessandro Pasotti
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