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

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Matthias

Happy xmas and new year to you! For me I am also fine with repurposing the
funds towards packaging but could I ask a few questions about the plan?:

1) Have your plans been discussed with Juergen? I kinda got the feeling
that he is being left out of the loop a bit here , and we are landing up
with our traditional 'two of everything' implementation strategy in QGIS. I
could be totally wrong about that so please feel free to correct me if I
am. Is there a concrete plan to eventually deprecate the NSIS and OSGEO
packaging work does? Or is the plan for them to exist side by side (isn't
that duplication of effort)?
2) Similar question about mac packaging, and could you indicate whether the
packages will be notarised?
3) If I understand correctly, the vcpkg packages create MSI installers -
are these notarised for windows? Will the end result of the process be our
ability to publish QGIS in the MS App Store (and possibly bring donation
revenue to QGIS and ease pressure on our download servers),

Regards

Tim





On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 7:20 PM Alessandro Pasotti via QGIS-PSC <
qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> +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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