[Qgis-psc] Bringing fresh blood

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>wrote:

> Hi all.
> IMHO, one of the most pleasant trends in QGIS is the fast growing number
> of contributors, e.g.
> http://www.ohloh.net/p/3663/contributors/summary
> In parallel, our user base is incresing even faster, and so, I guess,
> the number of potential financial contributors.
> Better feed up this trend. My suggestion is to stimulate prospective
> contributors to:
>
> * choose a task, with priority with those necessary for a smooth release
> of qgis 2.0 - all the blockers on the bugtracker, plus:
>    * add a bugtracker for all the plugins that miss it
>    * update to the new API the plugins that are not working
>    * migrate the plugin from the old to the new repo
>    * Sextante bugfixing, and especially setting up a full test suite for it
>    * general interface cleanup
>    * symbology migration to the new one
>    * labelling migration to the new one
>    * migrating to the new web site (stop joomla, go to rts)
>
> * make a proposal for the solution of the chosen task, and get a general
> acceptance from the team
> * make an estimate for the task
> * then we can start a BidForFix, and if successful the new dev can start
> working on it.
>
> How do you feel about it?
>


I'm happy to go ahead with this - maybe we should just pick one task first
and test the system out e.g. the sextante one (picked randomly)?

Regards

Tim


> All the best.
>
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