[QGIS-Developer] grant proposal

[Nyall Dawson]

On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 at 17:46, DelazJ <delazj at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> For the record, http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Grant-application-suggestions-for-next-time-td5368078.html from last year

Oh good - thought I was going crazy with deja vu here. Turns out it's
just Denis who's going crazy ;)

Nyall

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> Regards,
> Harrissou
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> Le mar. 25 juin 2019 à 09:38, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com> a écrit :
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>> On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 9:33 AM Denis Rouzaud <denis.rouzaud at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Hi all,
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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?
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>> Denis,
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>> I second this last proposal.
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>> Thanks for raising the issue.
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>> --
>> Alessandro Pasotti
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