[Qgis-psc] Proposal to do initiate a dev project for each QGIS release

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

> On 30 Jun 2015, at 09:44, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to propose that PSC initiates a small project for each future QGIS release, in addition to our bug fixing initiative.
> 
> I would propose projects that are important to QGIS or our infrastructure, but are not easy to "sell" for organizations who typically pay for feature development.
> 
> Here is a list of suggestions:
> 
> * Introduce Geopackage support throughout QGIS
> * finish multithreading work - I believe there is still work to be done on rasters and/or WFS?
> * Introduce shared style and SVG symbols repository

Note that Akbar (in CC) has started work on this. It would be great if we have funds to pay him something to support his work.


> * upgrade WFS to properly handle versions 1.3 and 1.1
> * Partially support Nyalls rewrite of print composer and reporting framework
> 
> Probably other PSC members would have additional ideas.
> 
> I would propose to pay one dev plus/minus one week to work on such a project for now. Later we can re-discuss it and align it with our funding possibilities.
> 
> Do you agree that it would make sense to support such a project for each release?
> 
> If yes - who decides? PSC or should we ask our users through voting? Who would propose projects?
> 
> Thank you for your thoughts?
> 


Yes I like the idea of supporting needed features and functionality - especially where they add polish to QGIS. I would also add to the list getting a graphic designer to harmonise all the resources in QGIS.

As to the process, Id suggest to keep it as low overhead as possible - QGIS community polls tend to be noisy and long winded affairs (remember the logo contest?) so I would prefer that we restrict voting to core dev or PSC.


Regards

Tim


> Andreas
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