[Qgis-psc] 2019 grant voting is closed

[Alessandro Pasotti]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 5:04 PM Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>
wrote:

> Hi Jonathan,
> I respectfully disagree with your view: qgis-server is an increasingly
> important part of our ecosystem. Compared to any other solution, it has
> the crucial advantage of allowing very complex and sophisticated styling
> to be brought to the web, thus acting as a WYSIWYG webgis.
> I do not see a conflict between server and desktop here: it is true that
> our resources are limited, but improving one expands the possibilities
> also for the other, so it's more of a synergy than a competition.
> Thanks for your thoughts.
> All the best.
>
>

I'm with Paolo here, QGIS Server has gained maturity and stability over the
years, thanks to the commitment and the efforts of many individual
developers and companies.

We are non facing new challenges, like the new OGC API (WFS3) [1] and as
was already mentioned,  QGIS Desktop can benefit from development efforts
on the server (in fact one of the server's grant proposals would have had a
strong impact on the desktop too).

A possible solution, that we should consider for the future grants, is to
allocate a small amount to the server proposals, this way it would be
easier to guarantee that at least some proposals can be funded.

Thank you for this interesting discussion!




> On 28/06/19 11:33, Jonathan Moules wrote:
> >> Personally I find it sad that server proposals never get a majority on
> > such votings. Seems like Desktop is still the priority for most voters.
> > But hey - improvements in QGIS core should also benefit server.
> >
> > Myself I think this is a good thing. FOSS already has plenty of
> > excellent Geospatial Servers. What it doesn't have is lots of excellent
> > desktop applications. there are others of course and I'm not denigrating
> > them, but to me QGIS seems like the leader in up-take and probably
> > overall functionality. I think focussing on QGIS' strength (Desktop)
> > makes much more sense than splitting the very-limited resources on
> > duplicating the already-well-covered Server field.
> >
> > Just my 2p,
> > Jonathan
> >
> > On 26/06/2019 08:06, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Thanks Anita for doing the work on the grant proposals! Looks good to
> me.
> >>
> >> Personally I find it sad that server proposals never get a majority on
> >> such votings. Seems like Desktop is still the priority for most
> >> voters. But hey - improvements in QGIS core should also benefit server.
> >>
> >> And at least we now have a proposal and price tag for the open server
> >> proposals and can find someone else to fund these improvements.
> >>
> >> All of the proposals sounded useful to me and I hope we can find
> >> others to finance some of the proposals that didn't make it. Or they
> >> can submit again next year if that topic is still relevant then.
> >>
> >> Greetings,
> >>
> >> Andreas
> >>
> >> On 2019-06-25 23:02, Tim Sutton wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Anita
> >>>
> >>> All looks good to me.- thanks for doing this!
> >>>
> >>> Regards
> >>>
> >>> Tim
> >>>
> >>>> On 25 Jun 2019, at 19:11, Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at
> >>>> <mailto:anitagraser at gmx.at>> wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> The grant voting is finished. We received 31 votes from 16 community
> >>>> representatives and 15 user group representatives.
> >>>>
> >>>> I've run the numbers to determine the successful proposals but I
> >>>> think we should have at least two more PSC members cross checking
> >>>> the results before publishing them:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f6eAOW8XyxIfuQA1JF5qR1TinDQugofOrNoPJpY-ZUo/edit?usp=sharing
>
> >>>>
> >>>> Please have a look and let me know if you confirm. My plan would be
> >>>> to announce the successful proposals on Sunday 30th June.
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>> Anita
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> >>>
> >>> —
> >>>
> >>>
>



[1] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/10016

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