[Qgis-psc] Request for sponsorship

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 9:15 AM, Radim Blazek <radim.blazek at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>

​Agreed

Regards

Tim​



>
> 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
>>> QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html
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>>
>>
>>
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