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

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi all,

We have to be a bit cautious about additional financial commitments. I 
am not against also paying Giovanni for his work. But I am not quite 
sure if we can afford it. With the payments for Jürgen and Martin our 
bank account will be almost exhausted.

However:

- I do not know what we still have in PayPal - is it still Horst who 
manages this? We did not have a PayPal transfer for 2-3 months. So 
expect there to be some money in PayPal. Paolo - did you ask Horst to 
forward us the PayPal login data?

- I don't know the exact amounts owe Jürgen and Martin.

I just wanted to mention that our funds will be soon exhausted and we 
cannot commit to additional paid work currently, other than the 2 days 
each for Martin/Jürgen.

Andreas

On 28.10.2014 09:24, Marco Hugentobler wrote:
> 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:
>>
>>     -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>     Hash: SHA1
>>
>>     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
>>
>>
>>     - --
>>     Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu <http://www.faunalia.eu>
>>     QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html
>>     -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>>     Version: GnuPG v1
>>
>>     iEYEARECAAYFAlROf60ACgkQ/NedwLUzIr4KRwCgnYWzufwnxlAfLC0w6HWjew0m
>>     S6YAnjEaCstoapTU/rzx09joRL6Vk8VG
>>     =UElv
>>     -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>>     _______________________________________________
>>     Qgis-psc mailing list
>>     Qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:Qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org>
>>     http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-psc
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Tim Sutton
>> Visit http://kartoza.com <http://kartoza.com/> to find out about open 
>> source:
>>  * Desktop GIS programming services
>>  * Geospatial web development
>> * GIS Training
>> * Consulting Services
>> Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net 
>> <http://freenode.net/>
>> Tim is a member of the QGIS Project Steering Committee
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Kartoza is a merger between Linfiniti and Afrispatial
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Qgis-psc mailing list
>> Qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-psc
>
>
> -- 
> Dr. Marco Hugentobler
> Sourcepole -  Linux & Open Source Solutions
> Weberstrasse 5, CH-8004 Zürich, Switzerland
> marco.hugentobler at sourcepole.ch  http://www.sourcepole.ch
> Technical Advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Qgis-psc mailing list
> Qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org
> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-psc

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-psc/attachments/20141028/a6163acb/attachment.html>