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    <p>Hi Tim and all,</p>
    <p>Documentation of the manual, documentation of Python API and
      managing the bug queue (Giovanni) have separate items in the
      budget. So far it hasn't been used at all - and the end of the
      year is coming rather quickly. I believe it is more a lack of time
      than a lack of money - the issue around documentation.</p>
    <p>For managing the bug queue we have a budget of 1k € per release.
      Perhaps this is not enough - I don't know how much time and effort
      Giovanni puts into the issues management. I am happy to increase
      this amount a bit, esp. since we did not have as many releases
      this year as usual.</p>
    <p>As to reviewing the PR queue: no idea how much effort would mean,
      but it would have to be done quickly (e.g. within the next week).
      Jürgen has to comment on that. We can spend some money on getting
      the PRs reviewed, but I would need an estimate (e.g. x days).</p>
    <p>Greetings,</p>
    <p>Andreas<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 27.10.2017 17:01, Tim Sutton wrote:<br>
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      cite="mid:B43CA41A-2D1E-48F9-BF8C-67B6C2D780F0@kartoza.com">Hi all<br
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      According to our release schedule we now hit feature freeze:<br
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      2.99 in feature freeze since 10/27/2017, 2:00:00 PM<br class="">
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      I am wondering what we will do with all the Pull Requests sitting
      in the queue (currently 98) if people put PR’s into the queue and
      nobody reviewed them / ok'd applying them? For example we
      (Kartoza) have <a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/5379"
        class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/5379</a> which
      I think is important to apply for 3.0. I am sure there are many
      others in the queue that didn’t make it the code base before
      feature freeze.
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      <div class="">My long term vision for QGIS is that we (<a
          href="http://QGIS.ORG" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">QGIS.ORG</a>)
        eventually hire some professional (as in paid, not volunteers)
        developers, documenters etc. to take care of house keeping
        things like reviewing PRs, fixing bugs on a more sustained
        basis, maintaining the web site, infrastructure etc. For the
        short term we have already earmarked 54 days of paid effort for
        bug fixing leading up to the QGIS 3.0 release which is really
        great. Andreas will correct me if I am wrong but I am sure we
        still have budget to support more than 54 days of paid effort by
        core developers and it would be really great to also include
        people like Giovanni Manghi (bug triaging), Yves Jacolin,
        Harrisou (documentation) and other contributors into the paid
        contributor programme leading up to the release.</div>
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      <div class="">But what about the PR queue? Is someone interested
        and capable of devoting some days (on a for-pay basis) to go
        through and apply all the ‘obvious’ PRs and dig in to the less
        trivial ones? Andreas can we support this as well via our
        budget?</div>
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      <div class="">Regards</div>
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      <div class="">Tim<br class="">
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                                href="http://QGIS.org" class=""
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                            font-variant-numeric: normal;
                            font-variant-alternates: normal;
                            font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin:
                            0px; line-height: normal;
                            -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"
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                          <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:
                            Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style:
                            normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
                            font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
                            orphans: auto; text-align: center;
                            text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
                            white-space: normal; widows: auto;
                            word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust:
                            auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;
                            font-variant-ligatures: normal;
                            font-variant-position: normal;
                            font-variant-numeric: normal;
                            font-variant-alternates: normal;
                            font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin:
                            0px; line-height: normal;
                            -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"
                            class="">Kartoza is a merger between
                            Linfiniti and Afrispatial</div>
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