[Qgis-psc] Fwd: Re: [Qgis-developer] Delay 2.6 release?..

[Marco Hugentobler]

Hi

Thank you Andreas for the update about the status of the finances. What 
would be the cost of 2 * half a week + bug queue management? I 
understand the € 14'800 is before having paied Jürgen and Martin. What 
is the amount on our account after all the bug fixing activities?

I'm most likely in favor of the additional work, but imho it is hard to 
vote on something without knowing the exact numbers.

 >* we need some more efficient decision system.

The delay of the release is not something that happened unexpectedly. I 
can hardly remind a release where it did not happen. So instead of a 
quicker decision system we need a budget plan.

Regards,
Marco

On 27.10.2014 21:52, Tim Sutton wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Paolo Cavallini 
> <cavallini at faunalia.it <mailto:cavallini at faunalia.it>> wrote:
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>     Il 27/10/2014 15:57, Jürgen E. Fischer ha scritto:
>
>     > Although I have the same problem.  I can "randomly" fix bugs, but I
>     > spend more time to find them, then to actually fix any.  I spend
>     > some of the weekend to review bugs, add categories, close some
>     > feedbackless bugs.
>     >
>     > Some would require wider work, that I wouldn't like to do shortly
>     > before the release.  Some are in my view less important than
>     > others, although that is not reflected by the current
>     > prioritization in redmine.  To me it's the impact that matters - so
>     > bugs in central functions are more important than hardly used
>     > functions - whether it a regression or not is less important to
>     > me.
>
>     Hi all.
>     I agree:
>     * we need a better classification system to prioritize the importance
>     of bugs (I still think the Debian approach is a good one)
>     * we need someone managing the bug queue, particularly during the
>     freezing period, but also outside it
>     * we need some more efficient decision system.
>     All in all, this boils down to investing some resource to support key
>     roles. I'd suggest to send the OK straight away for an extra 2 days of
>     bugfixing for both Martin and Juergen, and discuss the issue in the
>     next PSC meeting.
>     All the best.
>
>
> Can I suggest then that (if we have the funds) we pay Giovanni to also 
> spend two days reviewing the tickets and feeding Martin and Juergen 
> the highest priority issues after establishing how to reproduce them.
>
> +1 from me for them to proceed
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>
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