[Qgis-psc] Request for sponsorship

[Paolo Cavallini]

Il 15/01/2015 22:52, Tim Sutton ha scritto:

> 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.

Agreed fully. I'd also add plugin management, a rather obscure work that
I feel is important for our success.

All the best.
-- 
Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
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