[Qgis-psc] On finances

[Paolo Cavallini]

Hi Andreas,

thanks a lot, very clear. I agree, bugfixing is probably the single most
important thing we are doing. Better discuss and see if we can make it
more efficient.

Talk this evening.

Cheers.

On 12/3/18 9:14 AM, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> Dear PSC and other interested community members,
>
> I updated our financial situation. Please see the summary at
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WphBgUOx0abTJ_33jRVqFTkRU7KYrg8GyBLFdkYC2hw/edit?usp=sharing
>
> There are good news and bad news.
>
> Good news: On the income side we are doing better than what I
> budgeted. I still expect maybe up to 10k additional contributions.
>
> Bad news: On the expenses side we are doing much worse than what I
> budgeted. And there are still a couple thousand of additional
> invoices. Most items are more or less within the budget, except for
> the bug fixing expenses. These are a bit of a bottomless pit. One
> could go on forever with bug fixing and never be finished. We already
> spent 87 k € on bug fixing, more than twice than what I had in the
> budget - and there are still many severe bugs (including data loss,
> crashes or regressions) that bother many of our users. I also expect
> about 10k invoices around documentation and the QGIS grant from
> Matteo/Harissou.
>
> But I hope this is ok with you that we spend the bulk of our expenses
> on bug fixing. As I already told you, the results of a recently run
> survey among Swiss QGIS users, showed that quality is the main concern
> of our users. While the functionality of QGIS is already great and
> often even exceeds what our users need, they are still bothered with
> crashes, data loss or disappointments in speed for large data sets. We
> are making progress, but there are still many issues.
>
> We should lead a discussion on how we could further improve the
> quality of QGIS. I am very grateful that many of our core QGIS
> developers also take part in the bug squashing activity prior to each
> release. Without that, I think QGIS would be in a much worse shape. I
> think spending funds on this makes a huge difference.
>
> Personally I wonder if we shouldn't have a break in features for a
> period of one release where all of use would focus on stabilizing QGIS
> and improving the quality - both of QGIS itself and also in the
> documentation. Have one release windows (4 months) where we do not
> accept any major new features, but concentrate on fixing issues.
>
> I will also make a first proposal for the 2019 budget - so that we can
> start discussing it.
>
> Greetings,
> Andreas
>
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> Andreas Neumann
> QGIS.ORG <http://QGIS.ORG> board member (treasurer)
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