[Qgis-psc] donations and GRASS plugin

[Marco Hugentobler]

Hi Paolo

The problem with the GRASS plugin exists since a long time. 
I think it is quite simple: there is not enough interest in the plugin. 

From community side, no one volunteers to be maintainer and to invest a lot of 
time in it. From user side, no one invests more than 100 euro in it.

That said, I'm not against using the donated money for the plugin. I'm just 
wondering if we get very far with it. And if it wouldn't be better spent for 
the next dev meeting (the targeted 100 euro excluded).

Regards,
Marco



Am Donnerstag, 15. September 2011, 09.14:34 schrieb Paolo Cavallini:
> Hi all.
> We have recently received a series of small donations, just following my
> plea for help with the GRASS plugin. The largest (100 €, from Productive
> Water Services) has been explicitly targeted to the plugin, and probably
> most of the others are implicitely aimed at it. We have always asked
> people to send untargeted donations, but IMHO the plugin is neglected,
> needs some work, and nobody is apparently willing to do much on his own
> (Faunalia has done something over the years, but not enough). The question
> is now how to best use this money: suggestions?
> All the best.


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