[Qgis-psc] Request for repurposing of Grant to work on MacOS Packaging

[Matthias Kuhn]

Dear PSC,

I am reaching out to request a repurposing of the grant awarded last year
for "Cacheable provider metadata API". This grant was allocated for
improving the loading times of providers in QGIS, with a primary focus on
PostGIS.

Since the QEP was written, significant improvements in this area have
already been implemented through other means, such as the parallelization
of loading providers. While we still see potential for further
optimizations, particularly in the deduplication of initial requests sent
to a PostgreSQL database, addressing these would require a thorough
reevaluation and an adjustment to the original scope of the grant.

Meanwhile, vcpkg driven QGIS packages have gained a lot of momentum on
several platforms as well as being used by downstream projects like QField,
MerginMaps and Kadas Albireo. The demand for mac based packages is seeing a
significant increase in interest as well and, as stated in our recent
report, over the last few months considerable initial volunteer work has
been done by OPENGIS.ch on mac packaging and we'd like to push this through
the finish line and create reproducible CI-driven DMG packages.

After many positive initial discussions with several people from PSC and
the community, I'd like to officially ask if such a repurposing of the
grant would be embraced by the PSC.

Kind regards and an excellent year-ending Matthias
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