[QGIS-Developer] Reworking the QEP approach

[Alessandro Pasotti]

Hi Nyall,

Thank you for raising this topic, having worked with both GDAL and QGIS
RFC/QEP systems, I agree that we can borrow the GDAL procedure, we just
need to define the acceptance criteria (i.e. who can vote).



On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 11:52 PM Nyall Dawson via QGIS-Developer <
qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> This has been on my mind for a while -- I'd like to kick off
> discussions about how we can rework (fix?) the QEP approach to make it
> more useful for everyone.
>
> Right now we are just using GitHub issues for submission + comments on
> QEPs. But this leads to an awkward ambiguity at the conclusion of QEP
> discussion. Is a QEP ever really accepted? Does the end of discussion
> mean it's approved? When do we formally "kill" a QEP when the
> consensus is that it's not wanted?
>
> Right now everything just ends up in the same state -- an open ticket.
> Maybe someone will label it with "implemented", but we're inconsistent
> in doing that.
>
> It's REALLY hard to even just see what QEPs are locked in and which
> should form part of QGIS development practices. This is preventing
> them from being used for policy changes (eg
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/304 )
>
> In short, there's just a lot of ambiguity in the process.
>
> I think we could do better, and I'd suggest we follow GDAL's approach.
> This would require:
>
> 1. Some formal policy for voting on QEPs, and corresponding criteria
> for acceptance / rejection.
> 2. Reworking the QEP documentation so that we don't use issues for
> proposals, but rather use pull requests where the final proposal text
> becomes a markdown page in the repository.
> (3. anything else?)
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Nyall
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