[Qgis-psc] Fwd: [qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals] Support SAP HANA databases in QGIS (#151)

Wed Sep 4 00:31:50 PDT 2019

+1 from me - thanks Tim!
cheers

On 04/09/19 09:20, Tim Sutton wrote:
> Hi Paolo
> 
> Here is the draft email I prepared to send to them. If you are all happy
> with it we can send it to them...
> 
> -------
> 
> Dear xxxx
> 
> We wanted to reach out to you regarding your proposed patch for QGIS to
> add support for Hana. As you have probably realised, there have been
> some concerns raised about the integration of this code. I don’t believe
> these are insurmountable but we would like to ask you if you could
> respond on a few points as outlined below.
> 
> 
>  1. *Testing platform:* Currently it is difficult for us to test the
>     work you have done since we do not have a test / sandbox instance of
>     the provider that we can use to try it out. Could we ask you to
>     provide us with a perpetually available Hana database instance that
>     we can use to test your provider both now and in the future? It
>     would be ideal if you could set up and maintain this instance for us
>     and simply supply the connection details since we do not have the
>     time or expertise to manage this from within the community. We also
>     ask that you waive any licensing fees for this test platform so that
>     it is freely available to the project.
>  2. *Community participation:* We would like to ask if you can send one
>     or more of your developer team members to attend our regular QGIS
>     Contributor Meetings (next one planned for spring 2020 in The
>     Netherlands) - details will be added to our wiki soon:
>     https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/wiki. We ask this because we would a)
>     like you to be familiar with the norms and expectations of the QGIS
>     Community and b) so that we can get to know your team members and
>     gain a sense of confidence that you are committed to the ongoing
>     maintenance of the Hana provider and related impacted code in QGIS.
>  3. *Packaging and Integration Effort:* We would like to ask you if you
>     can give us some indication of the packaging overhead expected for
>     shipping your provider in our standard QGIS packages that we
>     distribute for macOS, Windows and Linux. Have you been able to test
>     on all of these platforms and is the provider fully self-contained?
>     Or does it depend on additional libraries that need to be installed
>     on the host operating system? If so are all of the aforementioned
>     operating systems supported? Also, note that providers are shipped
>     on mobile implementations of QGIS (QField and INPUT) and we would
>     like to know that these platforms will also support your Hana
>     provider. Finally with regard to packaging, if there is additional
>     overhead for packaging we would like to ask you to support the QGIS
>     project, either financially or by providing developer time, to
>     ensure that everything is cleanly packaged for all supported platforms.
>  4. *Point of contact:* We would like to ask you to provide a single
>     point of contact who will be technically knowledgeable and
>     responsive to requests such as bug reports or questions from our
>     community concerning your provider implementation.
>  5. *Upcoming API changes:* For QGIS 3.10 we are planning to integrate a
>     new abstraction layer for provider connection management. We would
>     like to ask you to work with Alessandro Pasotti to get the Hana
>     provider in line with the other providers. This may involve
>     subcontracting him directly if the process requires more time than
>     he is willing to donate.
> 
> 
> Lastly, we would like to say big “thank you” for choosing QGIS as a
> platform for your Hana provider implementation - we do appreciate that
> having it in QGIS and the new opportunities that it will open for our
> users in enterprise environments. We hope you enjoy working with the
> QGIS Community and we look forward to having a long and fruitful
> association together! We would also like to invite you to consider
> financially supporting the QGIS project through our sustaining
> membership programme
> (https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/sustaining_members/sustaining_members.html#qgis-sustaining-memberships)
> - as you probably realised from this email and the discussions
> surrounding your pull request, there is a lot of community / volunteer
> effort that goes into maintaining and managing the QGIS project and
> financial support allows us to offload the maintenance burden introduced
> by adding new provider such as the Hana driver to ad hoc contractors or
> paid community members.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> The QGIS Community
> 
> 
> ———
> 
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tim
> 
>> On 4 Sep 2019, at 08:14, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it
>> <mailto:cavallini at faunalia.it>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> following our discussion in Bucharest, I think we have to reply
>> officially to this one.
>> Any taker?
>> Cheers.
>>
>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>>
>> Hi @pcav <https://github.com/pcav>,
>>
>> I appreciate that you take the time to discuss a viable solution for
>> both sides. We do have a steady pull from customers running on a hybrid
>> commercial/open source landscapes who want to integrate HANA Spatial
>> with QGIS. We did already invest a fair amount of time in the
>> development of the core provider for HANA and also we have learnt our
>> lesson that we did not carefully study the QGIS enhancement processes
>> before starting our development.
>>
>> However given the current (unfortunate) situation would you be able to
>> give an estimate by when we can discuss the way forward with regards to
>> HANA integration in QGIS? Please also includes us in your ongoing
>> discussion if you feel this would be helpful.
>>
>> Many thanks in advance,
>> Mathias (SAP HANA Spatial Team)
>>
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