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

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

> On 26 Nov 2015, at 22:36, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 27 November 2015 at 00:53, Vincent Picavet (ml)
> <vincent.ml at oslandia.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> On 26/11/2015 14:08, Andreas Neumann wrote:
>>> Hi Vincent,
>>> 
>>> While I agree with you generally - please keep in mind that the
>>> situation is a bit different here. Sourcepole developed this
>>> functionality already (because their customers needed more reliable
>>> analysis functions) and we (QGIS.ORG) did not know about this
>>> development. It wasn't coordinated. Also, no customer from Sourcepole
>>> paid for it. It was their investment.
>> 
>> Yes, I do understand that the situation is odd, and that it would be an
>> exception to a general way of doing things.
>> 
> 
> Regardless of whether Sourcepole have already written an
> implementation of this, I would still very much like to see it opened
> up for alternative offers (if this all goes ahead, that is).
> 
> There's other developers/companies who would be interested in
> submitting competing proposals for this, and QGIS should use its
> limited funding to obtain the best value/most complete implementation.

Yes that is my thinking too.

Regards

Tim

> 
> Nyall
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Tim Sutton
QGIS Project Steering Committee Member
tim at qgis.org




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