[Qgis-psc] QGIS Plugin website application maintenance

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

On 12/03/2019 11.14, Tim Sutton wrote:
> Hi Ale
> 
> Ale I am also hugely appreciative of the work you have done. I think
> Kartoza can offer to take over maintenance. I will one one of my staff
> members to make it their pet open source project. We can also manage the
> server that it is deployed on and the deployments, backups etc. since I
> have been mostly involved with that these 8 years anyway.

[resending as I used wrong email to sent]

Hi Tim,

Thanks for this offer!

But it would move the 'burden' from Ale to you :-(

I believe in shared responsibility, that is: I'd be more happy to have a
simple application with less features who can be
build/maintained/developed by more people, then... the opposite of that.

As humans we tend to like 'features' :-)  giving rise to complexity that
is then only understood by a small group of people. I hope that we could
try to simplify AND compartmentize (?) our application/infra used, so
they can be understood/developed separately.

As an example: the current sponsor app and certification app are both
within 1 django app spread over 6(?) containers all needed off course
because we want many features, but make it pretty difficult to people
outside the original development group to enter (I speak from own
experience here: small tweaks I did in the sponsor app cost me (as
'average' tech guy) more time to get the machinery up and running then
do the actual work (while if you are into this setting up (like you)
this would actually make it EASIER..)..

So I hope that more people will step up to help (and understand), and
would be in favour of splitting current Django apps in smaller
individual ones, so for example people interested in certification can
try to get help for THEIR app from within their community instead of
should ask to the small dev group of the big app.

But again: thanks for your offer, and do not take this as critisism of
our current infrastructure projects! I just try to channel forward the
questions I got from all kind of people during the hackfest.

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde