[Qgis-psc] Sourcepole offer to port QGIS vector analysis tool to QGIS master

[Neumann, Andreas]

One clarification (mistake I did): 

The 25k CHF would include the development costs. The unit tests are not
included, but the Python bindings are included. Unit tests could be
added by other (potentially also cheaper developers). 

Andreas 

On 2015-11-24 11:58, Neumann, Andreas wrote: 

> Hi QGIS.ORG board, 
> 
> As you may know, Sourcepole developed the Vector analysis tools from Scratch for QGIS enterprise. They are apparently willing to port it into QGIS master - but there are several things missing. They would do the missing parts for 25k CHF (Swiss franks) - it probably also contains a smaller share of the initial dev costs they had. 
> 
> The missing bits are: 
> 
> - porting into QGIS master 
> 
> - moving the code from plugin to QGIS core analysis library 
> 
> - create Python bindings 
> 
> - create unit tests 
> 
> ----------------------- 
> 
> What they already did: 
> 
> Complete Rewrite in C++ of: 
> 
> - Convex Hull 
> 
> - Buffer 
> 
> - Intersect 
> 
> - Union 
> 
> - Symmetric difference 
> 
> - Clip 
> 
> - Difference 
> 
> - Dissolve 
> 
> - Eliminate sliver poylgons 
> 
> It allows to save the result as any OGR format, supports multi-threading and comes with a detailed error log in case of problems with invalid geometries. 
> 
> --------------------------- 
> 
> Some additional background: they already invested >200 hours for the re-development of the above methods. This equals about 35 kCHF. 
> 
> ---------------------------- 
> 
> Timing: they could probably do it for the QGIS 2.16 release (feature freeze May 20, 2016). They are busy with contracts - they cannot do it earlier with the resources they have. 
> 
> To me, personally, this sounds like a good offer. 
> 
> We would have to find a solution for our short-term problems with fTools - but to me this is a very good proposal to have a good fTools replacement in the future. 
> 
> Andreas 
> 
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