[Qgis-psc] Re: Acknowledgement of Contributor Guidelines

[Tim Sutton]

Hi All

Any objections to me going on to give Dave write access to SVN? PSC I
think you need to vote on this.

+1 from me.

Regards

Tim

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:27 PM,  <Dave.DeHaan at sybase.com> wrote:
> In accordance with requirement #6 of the Contributor Guidelines
> (http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Contributor_Guidelines), I am sending this email
> to indicate my agreement to abide by those guidelines.
>
> --Dave DeHaan
>
> ----
> David E. DeHaan, Ph.D.
> SQL Anywhere Research and Development
> Query Processing team
> Sybase iAnywhere
> www.sybase.com/ianywhere
> Free Developer Edition: http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1016644
>
>
>
>  From:       Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com>
>
>  To:         <Dave.DeHaan at sybase.com>
>
>  Cc:         QGIS Project Steering Committee <qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org>
>
>  Date:       11/30/2010 01:56 PM
>
>  Subject:    Re: [Qgis-psc] Contributing an SQL Anywhere plugin/provider
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi Dave
>
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 6:58 PM,  <Dave.DeHaan at sybase.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Project Steering Committee,
>>
>> I work for Sybase, performing R&D for our SQL Anywhere (SA) product.  SA
> is
>> a cross-platform feature-rich relational DBMS, whose market niches are
>> small- to medium-sized businesses, embedded applications, and mobile
>> environments.  Our most recent version (SA12) added comprehensive spatial
>> support, modelled after the SQL/MM and OGC standards.  We ship a spatial
>> viewer with our product as part of the administrative tools, but it is
>> exactly that---a viewer intended for developers or administrators, not an
>> end-user GIS application.  Many of our customers are new to spatial data
>> and are starting to consider how it might benefit their business.  For
>> those customers interested in trying out a feature-rich GIS application,
> we
>> would like to be able to recommend the Quantum GIS project.  From our
>> perspective, enabling QGIS to work with SQL Anywhere could be a benefit
>> both to Sybase customers and to the QGIS project.
>>
>> To that end, I have written a C++ plugin/data-provider combination that
>> interfaces QGIS (works with v1.5 and 1.6) with an SA12 (or later)
> backend.
>> All that is needed to compile them is a few SA-specific header files,
> which
>> we have released under the Apache v2.0 licence.  To establish a
> connection
>> to an SA server requires that the client machine has the (proprietary)
> SQL
>> Anywhere client libraries installed; otherwise a message to that effect
> is
>> displayed, along with a link to download the free Developer's edition of
>> SA.
>>
>> The plugin/provider code will be released under GPLv3.  Although we could
>> distribute it ourselves, we would prefer to contribute it back to the
> QGIS
>> project so that the SA compatibility is packaged and distributed as part
> of
>> the main QGIS application.  For convenience, we would also contribute the
>> SA-specific headers to the repository (three files subject to the Apache
>> license, not GPL).  I would be willing to join the project as maintainer
> of
>> this code.
>>
>> I look forward to hearing your thoughts on accepting this contribution.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> David DeHaan
>>
>> PS - In the interest of full discloser, over the weekend I had a brief
>> email discussion with Tim, Marco, and Gary about licensing details.  They
>> suggested this posting to the PSC once our lawyers signed off on the GPL
>> release, which has now happened.
>
>
> As per our email discussion, I support the addition of this provider
> and propose Dave be given SVN access so that he can directly
> contribute and maintain his work. Its really cool to have such
> additions make their way into the QGIS code base!
>
> +1
>
> It would be nice if possible for us (interested QGIS developers I
> guess) to test the SQL Anywhere provider. Is there some way we can get
> licenses of SQL Anywhere for personal use or is there otherwise some
> kind of trial version that we can use for this purpose?
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>>
>> ----
>> David E. DeHaan, Ph.D.
>> SQL Anywhere Research and Development
>> Query Processing team
>> Sybase iAnywhere
>> www.sybase.com/ianywhere
>>
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Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member (Release  Manager)
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