[QGIS-Developer] Compliments

[Patrick Dunford]

Good day to all

I wish to record my overwhelming gratitude to this software project as I 
have been a user of this software QGIS over the past 8 years since 
version 1.8. During that period I have been working on developing 
historical hobby maps covering a large part of the country of New 
Zealand and making extensive use of freely downloadable map resources 
which are available there.

I have just completed the first volume of a series, containing just over 
1000 individual maps which are published online for free access. Each of 
those maps has to be individually generated and checked from the layout 
composer. There are still another 11 volumes of a similar size to be 
produced in the series which should take roughly 11 months (for the rest 
of this year).

None of this could have been achieved without the use of the Qgis 
software and I must especially record my appreciation that it is free 
software as this project could not have happened at all a few years ago 
considering the large volume of resources involved and the expense all 
round that would have been incurred given the commercial value of all 
the resources (my personal income at present being less than NZ$20,000 pa).

It has been of considerable personal regret to me that a certain level 
of conflict did arise during the period that I was using the 2.99 
development edition of the software and I hope it will be possible for 
developers to accept this apology for those situations. Unfortunately I 
do not have the time these days to run the development edition for 
testing and have yet to master the new bug reporting system so you have 
not heard from me in a while anyways.