[Qgis-psc] OSX 2.16 versions

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Jeff

> On 27 Jul 2016, at 3:26 PM, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
> 
> (adding William to this thread)
> 
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> I am not surprised that I am totally wrong on all counts, I am for sure over-stepping my bounds.  Essentially I am trying to make sure that you include William on your team, and if anything I hope my (incorrect) email helps to bring everyone together.  I think this thread was asking questions, and my thinking is to bring everyone together and to talk.
> 

Just to clarify: When I said we do not have a **lot** of interaction with William, it is isn't that we have **no** interaction with him, or that we consciously exclude him in any way - we always include him where OSX packaging discussions happen and at the same time try not to overload him with noise about things. A lot of the interaction is implicit - William follows along with the release process and builds packages when he has time. Think 'quiet genius working away in the basement' here :-) I think its pretty much the same for other packagers out there. We all greatly appreciate Williams effort and support over the years - I use his packages on my Mac and he does a really awesome job of getting QGIS to users on OSX.

Regards

Tim

> -jeff
> 
> 
> 
> On 2016-07-27 9:59 AM, Neumann, Andreas wrote:
>> 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
>> - 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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