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

[Marco Bernasocchi]

Hi Matthias,

With Anita, Alessandro, Régis and Tim's +1 in this thread and Jürgen,
Andreas and my verbal ok during the budget meeting, please consider the
request for repurposing accepted.

Thanks for all your work, I'm sure many people look forward to finally
having notarised MacOS packages!

Cheers Marco

On Thu, 26 Dec 2024, 18:30 Régis Haubourg via QGIS-PSC, <
qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> That's also a +1 for me !
> I also share Tim's questions but I don't doubt you'll get into details in
> a QEP as usual.
> Let's explore what vcpkg allows us to do. We'll have a clearer view of
> possible scenarios.
> Cheers!
>
>
> Le 26 décembre 2024 20:20:08 GMT+01:00, Alessandro Pasotti via QGIS-PSC <
> qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org> a écrit :
>
>> +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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