[Qgis-psc] Proposal to support multi-threaded development

[Saber Razmjooei]

Hi guys,

Andreas, we are following the discussion.
We have not had any success so far for finding other sources to fund the MTR. But Martin's time has been dedicated to this project for the past couple of weeks and hopefully we will be on track for the initial programme we have discussed.

Kind regards,
Saber

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From: qgis-psc-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-psc-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Andreas Neumann
Sent: 25 November 2013 15:20
To: Tim Sutton
Cc: qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Qgis-psc] Proposal to support multi-threaded development

Hi Tim,

The discussion was around 20k Euro. So if qgis-ch can pay 5k and the QGIS international project can pay 5k there are still 10k to cover. If you have the opportunity to come up with additional funding it would be great.

I don't know if Martin Dobias, Peter Wells or Saber are following this discussion. I hope they do. I invited them to join this PSC mailinglist.

Andreas

Am 2013-11-25 15:35, schrieb Tim Sutton:
> Hi Andreas
> 
> On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi PSC,
>> 
>> In October Peter and Saber proposed a project to work on the 
>> multi-threaded rendering. The new Vector API (which was also 
>> co-funded by the QGIS user group in Switzerland) was the preparation 
>> for this follow-up work. The development work on the multi-threaded 
>> rendering would be carried out by Martin Dobias.
>> 
>> Lutra Consulting, the current employer of Martin, is looking to raise 
>> Euro 20k for this project. The QGIS user group pays CHF 3000.- this 
>> year and will most likely pay a similar amount again next year.
>> 
>> I am asking the PSC that the international QGIS project is also 
>> co-funding this project, perhaps with approx. Euro 5k.
>> 
>> Marco Hugentobler worked on multi-threaded rendering in QGIS 
>> enterprise (based on the 1.9x branch). Horst demoed this version at 
>> the recent QGIS CH coordination meeting. It looks very promising as 
>> it does not block the UI. Users can navigate to a different extent 
>> while QGIS is still rendering. QGIS would then cancel the old render 
>> threads and start with the new threads. But this work is not 
>> compatible with the 2.x development branch. However, it shows the 
>> potential of threaded rendering.
>> 
>> What is the opinion of the PSC? Can the international group co-fund 
>> this initiative?
> 
> We *may* be able to get some funding to support this - how much money 
> do you still need (assuming QGIS.org supports it to with the 5k you 
> requested)?
> 
> +1 for QGIS.org to contribute towards this if we have the funds - it
> will be a valuable step forward for QGIS.
> 
> We should also factor in some support time for inevitable issues that 
> may arise down the line.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tim
> 
>  
> 
>> Andreas
>> 
>> PS: see also discussion started here -
>> 
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