[Qgis-psc] Advancing QGIS 3.0

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

> On 05 Nov 2016, at 3:55 PM, Matthias Kuhn <matthias at opengis.ch> wrote:
> 
> Hi Tim and others
> 
> On 11/04/2016 03:31 PM, Tim Sutton wrote:
>> 
>> I would add to the prior discussion that it might be better to come
>> forward with specific funding proposals e.g.  'we need to fund the
>> python API migration tool, can the PSC help with ERU 5000 to support
>> it'? Andreas maybe we should also have in our budget some space for ad
>> hoc requests like this too (maybe it is already there, I forget).
> 
> I will think about something to propose.

Cool.

> 
> My idea with this thread start to think about how an incentive can be
> given to developers and others to support the development of QGIS 3.
> 
> Andreas mentioned the local user groups which I think are a perfect
> candidate to help with this. It would be very good if there could be
> dedicated fund raising sprints organized by local groups to help the
> development. Or code sprints - which would not replace regular dev meetings.
> Maybe contacting them with some ideas might be good?
> 
> What I would like to see is the best community effort ever to make QGIS
> 3.0 land soon and in a very good shape.
> I would like to re-state my request to the PSC to discuss possible
> approaches.

I think we could write to all the country group representatives and ask them to help make a big push for the release. It would be good to give them some concrete targets for help. Perhaps we can schedule a synchronized bug hunt event across the user groups and testing spree in Jan / Feb and together ask them to help raise funds so that we can support developers to actually fix the bugs they find :-P Getting coding effort from country user groups would be good too - for example getting plugins to work on 3.0 could be a good activity to promote.

Regards

Tim

> 
> Kind regards
> Matthias
> 
> P.S: I'm thinking about visiting Montpelier ;)
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