[Qgis-psc] Request for sponsorship

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>
wrote:

> 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.
>

​Yes - good addition to the list!

Regards

Tim​



>
> All the best.
> --
> Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
> QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html
>



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