[QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-psc] QGIS QT6 meeting minutes

[Alessandro Pasotti]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 4:38 PM Andreas Neumann <andreas at qgis.org> wrote:
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> Hi Ale and colleagues,
>
> Thank you all for your efforts to make QGIS qt6 build a reality - and work on overcoming the blockers.
>
> Perhaps we can speed up the PSC decision and give this a go through our approval on the QGIS PSC mailing list, rather than having to wait for the next meeting in 3 weeks.
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> Budget wise we can cover the approximate estimated expenses of 20k €. The funding drive had good results - more sustaining members on the upper levels (large and platinum) are in the pipeline.
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> From me it is a +1.

Agreed, of course +1 from me too.



>
> Andreas
>
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2023 at 09:52, Alessandro Pasotti via QGIS-PSC <qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
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>> Hi Michel,
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>> thank you and welcome!
>>
>> The next step is to get this plan approved by the PSC (with the
>> associated budget), the next PSC meeting is in about three weeks.
>>
>> If the plan is approved I'll set up monthly meetings to coordinate the efforts.
>>
>> Kind regards.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 9:49 AM Nzikou, Michel
>> <michel.nzikou at alumni.uleth.ca> wrote:
>> >
>> > I am okay to land sometime if there are any parts I can contribute too.
>> > FYI been working with Qgis about 7 Months. Thanks
>> >
>> > On Wednesday, March 15, 2023, Julien Cabieces via QGIS-Developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> Thank you for the meeting minutes!
>> >>
>> >> I'm already planning to continue the effort in
>> >> porting/fixing code for Qt6 in the next months using Oslandia own
>> >> funding, so I'm candidate to join the working group.
>> >>
>> >> > ND: major missing bit: python support. Bulk of the tests are thus not running
>> >> > Packaging issues - Sandro Mani looking into python stuff for fedora
>> >> > (QVariant issues)
>> >>
>> >> Is there a reason why we are switching from ubuntu for Qt5 builds to
>> >> fedora for Qt6 builds ? Because there is already PyQt6 packages in ubuntu:22.10.
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Julien
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > Hi,
>> >> >
>> >> > Here is some feedback about the QGIS QT6 status meeting we had yesterday.
>> >> >
>> >> > First I'd like to thank all the attendees, it was great to see the
>> >> > excitement and the interest in moving forward with this project.
>> >> >
>> >> > If I may summarize the outcome, we decided that the best way to move
>> >> > forward is to create a working group with all the interested
>> >> > developers and allocate a budget (20K is the proposed budget) in order
>> >> > to find a solution to the main blockers, it is very hard to estimate
>> >> > the effort in advance but we thought that with that budget we will be
>> >> > able to move forward.
>> >> >
>> >> > Any QGIS core developer with experience in the main areas involved and
>> >> > willing to dedicate some time to this effort is eligible and warmly
>> >> > invited to participate in the working group.
>> >> >
>> >> > Here is the link to the minutes:
>> >> >
>> >> > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Un4Jyz9PO8t2vmEBkUKa187SytM2gsQn-jB6mSqXcvU/
>> >> >
>> >> > This proposal will be discussed at the next PSC meeting.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >>
>> >> Julien Cabieces
>> >> Senior Developer at Oslandia
>> >> julien.cabieces at oslandia.com
>> >> 09.72.52.52.76
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>> >
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