[Qgis-psc] Request for sponsorship

[Radim Blazek]

Hi,

regardless how much money, paying bugfixes for third party sponsored new
feature out of QGIS pocket will cause moral damages:
1) encourages contributors to push half finished work to master expecting
that QGIS will take care of it
2) discourages developers to take medium-term responsibility over their
contributions

Radim



On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> From my side I would like to see also that we plan out out spending more,
> and yes we definitely need to have published / public annual statement of
> accounts that we can point potential funders too and demonstrate that we
> manage our cash responsibly.
>
> In this particular case I am ok with funding the rotation work to get it
> stabilised but I think it would be better if we plan out our activities
> e.g. for the next year. It need not be detailed but I would like to see us
> make room for funding other things in particular:
>
> * issue tracker maintenance (we discussed this before here)
> * pre-release bug fixing (probably with gradually increasing funding for
> this)
> * graphics and UI consistency
> * API documentation - to get our docs to a state where they have snippets
> in both python and c++ for each class like Qt do
> * API maintenance - over the years QGIS API has become quite messy and
> often unintuitive (e.g. V2 classes)
> * building a more comprehensive test suite
> * hackfests
>
> Just having a 'pot' of money against various different activities will
> help us ensure that our funding is balanced and moves the project as a
> whole forward, not just in one area. You will notice that feature
> development is not on my list above - I believe that is the one thing that
> should not be a focus for spending our money - rather as a project our
> funds should be focussed on stabilising and improving our software.
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>
> wrote:
>
>> Il 14/01/2015 10:23, Andreas Neumann ha scritto:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I can understand the lack of information on our financial situation and
>> > can promise to prepare an overview for the middle of next week. I am
>> > busy with other work before that, sorry. I will probably be able to
>> > deliver this financial summary more timely next year, once the process
>> > is established.
>>
>> Thanks a lot Andreas for this. This is a long standing issue for us, and
>> we're on the good way to have it solved.
>> The main problem is about our hybrid structure, not having a legal
>> entity. IMHO we should seriously consider proceeding as per Tim
>> suggestions, establishing a foundation or something similar.
>> More food for discussion, both at the PSC meeting and at the HF.
>> All the best.
>> --
>> Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
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