[Qgis-psc] Bringing fresh blood

[Paolo Cavallini]

Il 23/01/2013 14:52, Tim Sutton ha scritto:
> Hi
>
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Paolo Cavallini
> <cavallini at faunalia.it <mailto: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)?
>
So, if nobody objects, can I start?
I agree starting with just one block. My suggestion is:
   * 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
because working on sextante would require much interaction, possibly
confusing for a first timer.
Maybe we can add "developing a sextante test suite" to the list.

Opinions?

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Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia
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