[QGIS-Developer] "Needs sponsor" label? (again)

[Nyall Dawson]

On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 22:42, Matthias Kuhn <matthias at opengis.ch> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I think that's at least as difficult, because QGIS gives pretty much "free choice" on the bugfixing campaigns and individual devs choose, where they are most efficient in spending their time.
>
> Maybe it's best to keep the labels in the tracker free from any funding related things and just use it to assign people who are actively working on things which have been sold. If once in a while someone rolls the drums for an ongoing crowdfunding campaign in a comment, that's acceptable for me OTOH.

Ok, these are all valid concerns.

My original thinking was that we would use this tag for tickets which
require extensive development (e.g. weeks of development), and
accordingly are extremely unlikely to happen on a solely volunteer
basis.

Nyall

>
> Bests
>
> Matthias
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> On 10/3/19 2:07 PM, Régis Haubourg wrote:
>
> Hi
> I quite agree with Paolo. What about reversing the logic and add a label "Funded by QGIS.org" when we tackle a bug or a feature with QGIS.org ressources ?
>
> This would also help in identifying the issues tackled by our fundings in the long run, and help in coordinating a bit.
>
> Regards
> Régis
> Le jeu. 3 oct. 2019 à 13:09, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> a écrit :
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> On 03/10/19 09:58, Alessandro Pasotti wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Nyall,
>> >
>> > What would be exactly the meaning of that label?
>> >
>> > If a developer adds that label, does that mean the she would be
>> > interested in implementing the feature if she get paid for it?
>> >
>> > What if another developer is willing to implement it for free? She just
>> > removes the label and starts working on it?
>> >
>> > I'm not sure we want to expose this kind of things in the issue tracker,
>> > I mean we should probably use other channels and perhaps add some other
>> > label that clearly indicates that there is a fundraising campaign
>> > running for that particular issue/feature.
>> >
>> > If there is a running campaign I think it's totally fine to put a link
>> > to the campaign (and a label) in the issue.
>> >
>> > Btw, thanks for raising the topic, in general I like very much the idea
>> > to give more visibility to fund-raising campaigns (which includes
>> > crowdfunding of course).
>>
>> in principle I'd be in favour of this, to make it clear to users that
>> they can make the difference and add more responsibility upon their
>> shoulders. However, I agree with Ale: what is the criteria? Every ticket
>> needs resources to be fixed, so which  one would earn the label?
>> If we find a reasonable (not requiring too admin work) and transparent
>> (no ambiguity) way of managing this, our newsfeed in the startup window
>> will be a powerful tool to implement it, as Andreas pointed out.
>> Cheers.
>>
>> --
>> Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
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