[Qgis-psc] Funding to update test environment?

[Nyall Dawson]

(ccing back in PSC list)

On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 at 12:49, Mathieu Pellerin <nirvn.asia at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Nyall,
>
> Quick question: would this work also indirectly help us get closer to having Qt6 builds pass all core tests?

Yes, definitely.

Nyall



>
> Math
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 9:36 AM Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi PSC,
>>
>> We're currently hitting an issue where the CI on Github is failing
>> because it's all based on Ubuntu 21.10, which is now EOLed. To get
>> things back on track, we need to update this to a newer (supported)
>> Ubuntu release.
>>
>> I attempted this a couple of months back, but found that the amount of
>> work required to get things passing was non-trivial. (Due to the tests
>> which need to be updated for changed behaviour in the newer
>> Qt/GDAL/GEOS library versions).
>>
>> My estimate is that we're looking at 3-4 days work to do this.
>>
>> So I'm wondering if there's any funds available to complete this work?
>> (We can't wait for the normal QGIS grant cycle here, as we really need
>> a working test environment to keep things stable and moving forward.)
>>
>> Thanks for the consideration,
>> Nyall
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