<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Paolo<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Well I've pondered these issues for QGIS too as I'm sure others have. Perhaps we should have put our idea of hiring a bug fixing developer to the vote first? I think there are numerous issues around gathering funds and then allocating them to one developer to do work. At the same time as long as QGIS is always a purely hobbyist project we will always struggle to get releases out -especially as QGIS grows in complexity. Does anyone have any unhappiness towards the idea of hiring a bug squasher to get this release out? Personally I'm happy that we do this so that we can get this release out of the way and march on towards 1.0 release. I have this feeling that 1.0 is the 'magic' time when existing developers can start to make a living as QGIS developers for hire.... </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Life always gets complicated when money enters the equation....</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Regards</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Tim</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 01/11/2006, at 04:52, Paolo Cavallini wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hash: SHA1</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">an experiment very similar to ours:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2006/10/msg00260.html">http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2006/10/msg00260.html</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">hopefully we'll do it better.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">pc</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">- --</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Paolo Cavallini</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">email+jabber: <A href="mailto:cavallini@faunalia.it">cavallini@faunalia.it</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">www.faunalia.it</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Piazza Garibaldi 5 - 56025 Pontedera (PI), Italy <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Tel: (+39)348-3801953</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; 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