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

[Alessandro Pasotti]

+1 from me as well.

Thank you for your work.



Il mar 24 dic 2024, 11:17 Matthias Kuhn via QGIS-PSC <
qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org> ha scritto:

> 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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