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

[Martin Dobias]

Hi Andreas

In order to keep spending of QGIS.ORG efficient and transparent, it
would make sense to undertake bigger projects through a simple bidding
process. The board would prepare a specification with requirements and
any interested party would be allowed to participate. Bidders would
submit their proposals and the board would then award the contract to
the best bid. A proposal would include 1. total cost, 2. delivery
date, 3. draft QEP, so that it is clear what the developers want to
do.

Regards
Martin


On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Neumann, Andreas <a.neumann at carto.net> 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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