[Qgis-psc] OSX 2.16 versions

[Neumann, Andreas]

Hi Jeff, 

I believe QGIS 2.16 wasn't properly announced yet - looking into
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/2016-July/thread.html I
can't see such an announcement e-mail. However, the webpage lists 2.16 -
so I don't really know if it is really released yet or not. It is a bit
of a mess. Of course people start tweeting before official announcements
... probably including myself. 

But both of your assumptions are wrong. QGIS.ORG is not waiting until
all of the packages are created - and none of the packagers are funded
so far. Packaging and release is purely voluntary work until now. Also,
documentation is only really marginally funded until now - but partially
funded by companies who employ documenters (like Camptocamp). 

The only "paid" work so far was bug fixing - see
http://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog216/index.html#notable-fixes
[1]- we also pay partially the bug management work from Giovanni and
every once in a while some infrastructure work, or just recently
Matthias Kuhn's work on implementing the test framework for QGIS
processing. 

Of course this is all up to discussion. 

We are about to launch a "QGIS grants" program soon - someone could
apply for a grant to do such work (release and packaging). Or PSC
decides to pay someone separately for such work - outside of the grant
program. 

Greetings, 

Andreas 

On 2016-07-27 14:32, Jeff McKenna 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 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.
> 
> -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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Links:
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http://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog216/index.html#notable-fixes
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