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

[Anita Graser]

Thank you for the update on this project, Matthias.

Since the original performance improvement goals have been achieved by different means in the meantime, I agree with repurposing the funds for other essential improvements. And improving our package support for a major OS definitely fits the definition of essential work and with the efforts we fund on a regular basis from the main budget or through grants.

+1 from my side

Anita



Dec 24, 2024 12:17:49 Matthias Kuhn via QGIS-PSC <qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org>:

> 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.
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> 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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