[Qgis-psc] Possible funding for devs to begin Qt5/Python 3.0 port?

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

> On 24 Oct 2015, at 01:31, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi PSC,
> 
> Discussion is ramping up on the dev list and on
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/pull/24 regarding
> the timeline for the Qt5/Python 3.0 transition.
> 
> I'm writing to PSC to start discussion about whether QGIS org would be
> able to sponsor some work to allow this transition to occur. It's a
> considerable/difficult/thankless task and requires quite specialised
> knowledge, and without sponsorship I can't see this work happening
> quickly.
> 
> My recommendation (from a dev's POV) would be that both Matthias and
> Jürgen would be ideal candidates for this (given their demonstrated
> experience/knowledge with the required work). Jürgen for the work
> required in preparing the Windows dependencies for the OSGEO4W builds,
> and Matthias for the work required in transitioning the main codebase
> to Qt5 exclusive builds and for moving Travis CI builds to this setup
> too. Possibly funding for OSX packaging (Larry/William?) and Python
> 3.0 transition (maybe Nathan would be a good candidate for this?)
> could also be explored.
> 
> Could this be discussed amongst PSC members and a decision relayed so
> that we can take this into account while planning for the transition
> timeline?

From me its an automatic +1 I’ve been following along on the discussions and it seems like some consensus is being reached about how to move forward. The only question from my side is really how much funds we can allocate while not totally depleting our reserves - something that Andreas is better placed to tell us.

I have been also wondering if the scope of 3.0 should not also include HIG review because in my opinion the QGIS UI is becoming very hard to navigate, many dialogs are poorly laid out, its hard to find options and so on.

Similarly with plugins I think we need to establish clear HIG guidelines and start thinking about a much more heavily curated library of plugins (I know there is also discussion about this going on in the dev mailing list).

Also documentation really needs to thinking about in order to make it sustainable - with our multiple help systems, etc. plus the massive effort required to maintain the user manual we really need to take a step back and think how we can manage all these things more effectively - and fund someone like Otto or Richard to do it.

My point really is when planning how to spend our money lets think more broadly than just which developer activities to fund and rather think about establishing budgets for different project activities and then fairly spread the money between these (or make a concerted fund raising programme to facilitate everything needed for a very professional 3.0 delivery).

Regards

Tim

> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Nyall
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Tim Sutton
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