[Qgis-psc] How many releases in 2018?

[Paolo Cavallini]

Hi all,

Il 10/12/2017 20:35, Tim Sutton ha scritto:
> Other suggested budget items:
> Package maintenance - Windows
> Package maintenance - Mac
> Package maintenance - Linux / Debian / Ubuntu
> 
> Rationale: I think it would be good to pay something towards all the
> effort it takes Jürgen in particular puts into making the packages, and
> in future also support Larry to maintain ‘first class’ MacOS packages.

+1 from me

> Expected income: Should there not be.a ‘balance brought forward’ with
> any projected remaining cash from 2017 shown as an income for 2018? If
> we did that there would surely be an extra n thousand available for our
> activities.

it makes sense to me

> I 100% agree about the PR management that we could as one of the devs to
> take on as a part time ‘job’. I would like to also propose that because
> there is such a long backlog of items in the queue that we have a
> special sprint from that person (e.g. 1 week of funding) to triage the
> existing queue (as a separate activity to reviewing the regularly
> incoming PR’s).

+1

> Our SWAG budget underspend: Can I suggest we actually do use it - I
> think it is a wasted opportunity to market our project. Perhaps we could
> start by buying a bunch of t-shirts / caps etc and brining them along to
> Madeira and just handing them out to all attendees - a small reward for
> the effort they put into supporting the project? I can probably do it
> from here if nobody else is interested to help with it.

the more nerdish side of me says we better move this budget to bugfixing
etc., but from a wider perspective I agree with Tim, so a +1

> Glad to see you added in more cash for the Python API docs….and for docs
> in general.
> 
> I also want to suggest that with cash brought forward from 2017 if we
> have additional cash that we take the first steps to hiring a develop on
> a e.g. one day a week basis to do ‘work in the interests of the project’
> - thinking for example of the welcome screen / user experience stuff we
> discussed in Nødebo and other high value effort which does not fit
> neatly into a grant and which contractor work would generally not
> attract. It would add EUR41,600 to our budget but I think we could ask
> the developer for a cheaper rate since it is long term guaranteed work.
> I think we could couple this with a funding drive and updating our
> sponsorship prices a bit e.g. move bronze up to EUR 800 or 100EUR.
again, +1

Thanks Tim for your thoughts, and Andreas for your precious work!
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