[Qgis-psc] Migrating to free software

[Paolo Cavallini]

Hi Tim, all

Il 08/04/20 12:46, Tim Sutton ha scritto:

> It’s a pity I was not allowed to join the meeting yesterday, anyway, I
> have added my votes in the meeting document. If I had been there, I
> would have suggested changing the wording as per my comments below:
> 
> 
>   *
>     Paolo suggests free software should be the first choice. We should
>     choose proprietary alternatives only when it is proven that free
>     software fails to provide a reasonable solution. The PSC should vote
>     in case a proprietary solution is suggested.
>       o
>         +1 Jürgen
>       o
>         +1 Paolo
>       o
>         +1 Andreas
>       o
>         +1 Marco
>       o
>         +1 Anita
>       o
>         -1 Tim - Prefer that we vote on *any* solution (Proprietary or
>         FOSS and choose it based on merrits rather than its license).

exactly, this is the main issue: for you licences are indifferent, for
me they are the central point of our project. my logic: without a free
and open source licence QGIS would never have existed.

> Paolo I think you are jumping the gun writing stuff in NextCloud below -

I'm sorry it's unclear: this is just a list of proprietary software
Time is scarce here, and problems are huge, I hope it can be excusable
if something is too hasty.
I edited the document, I hope it is more clear now.
Anyway, this is clearly not an official document, it's just a working sheet.

> we should approach things in an orderly and democratic fashion:
> 
> 1 someone proposes a new platform e.g. next cloud for docs
> 2 they propose a migration strategy for existing content that needs to
> move to that platform
> 3 they propose who will do the migration
> 4 they propose what if any funding implications there are
> 5 they propose a timeline for the migration
> 6 they describe how the infrastructure is managed if it is self hosted
> (e.g. do we have backups, who has admin, who fixes issues)
> 7 we vote on it having been given reasonable time to consider the above
> information and test out the alternative
> 8 assuming we vote to agree with the proposal 
> 9 we then start using the new platform
> 
> I don’t think it is fair or reasonable to just skip 1-8 and start on 9.

of course, I think it is more clear now.
Cheers.
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Paolo Cavallini
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