[Qgis-psc] OSX 2.16 versions

[Jeff McKenna]

(adding William to this thread)

Hi William,

I'd like to introduce you to the QGIS PSC here, so you can start working 
more closely with the QGIS team.  (you can join the PSC mailing list at 
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-psc).

The QGIS PSC will likely describe to you about their funded 'bug fixing 
program', and I think you can pitch to the PSC for having a few days of 
funded time, for each release.

Here I guess I am over-stepping my bounds, as I am not a QGIS PSC 
member, but I live in your shoes William (as the Windows packager and 
documentation lead for MapServer).  I'll go quiet again now ha!

By the way, I really appreciate your work William, I know the effort 
involved.  Not many thank people like us.  Well, thank you!

-jeff



On 2016-07-27 9:44 AM, Tim Sutton wrote:
> Hi
>
>> On 27 Jul 2016, at 2:32 PM, Jeff McKenna
>> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm assuming here that you are working closely with William, through
>> the QGIS paid 'bug fixing program' (or whatever we name it, for
>> helping to fund the team for each release).
>
> I would say we generally don't have too much interaction with William -
> thats ok for the most part. We would welcome his participation in the
> paid bug fixing programme.
>
>
>> I also am assuming that the green button for the release is pressed
>> once packagers on the major platforms are ready, and the documentation
>> team has finished their changes.  Yes packagers and documenters must
>> be included on that team, the 'bug fixing program' or whatever you
>> name it.
>
> Here's my take on it (Jürgen as release manager probably has a better
> way to put this):
>
> From our perspective I would say a 'release' only covers the preparation
> of the source code. Following on that usually comes (in sequence)
> windows and ubuntu packages, the visual changelog,  public
> announcements, OS X packages, other platform packages. Documentation is
> only targeted for LTR releases and usually comes out some time after the
> actual release.
>
> In an ideal world we would have everything lined up and then make one
> big splash announcement with everything ready to go, but there are too
> many ducks to line up in a row :-P
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>>
>> -jeff
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2016-07-27 4:08 AM, Neumann, Andreas wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I hear a lot of requests for the 2.16 OSX packages - also discussed on
>>> Twitter. I don't know Kyngchaos and I don't want to push him, because I
>>> don't know him personally - who is in contact with him? Are there
>>> technical issues or just a lack of time? Can we do something to
>>> assist/accelerate the process?
>>>
>>> Could we setup an automatic build system for OSX in the future, perhaps
>>> starting with QGIS 3.x?
>>>
>>> The OSX builds seem to be esp. popular in the media and designer
>>> community.
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> Andreas
>>>
>>>
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