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

[Marco Bernasocchi]

Hi Tim, Hi Régis,

On Thu, 26 Dec 2024, 18:02 Tim Sutton via QGIS-PSC, <
qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> 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)?
>
Matthias came to the last PSC budget Meeting to explain and answer
questions. Jürgen was there and they turned the meeting into the most
technical budget meeting ever 😉

To summarise the discussion, for now this effort is for MacOS only since
this is where the shoe hurts and vcpkg is not yet a drop in replacement for
OSGEO4w (for example GRASS and Saga are missing).

2) Similar question about mac packaging, and could you indicate whether the
> packages will be notarised?
>
We also discussed this, and yes this is the goal

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),
>
See 1


Cheers Marco

>
> 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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