Il giorno sab, 09/04/2011 alle 14.31 +0200, Ivan Mincik ha scritto: > solutions, which can solve the problem of increasing number of > unclosed bug reports which are degrading devs work and user > impression.
I agree: this is a problem for the project. > 1. Employ some new C++/Qt devs in software companies using QGIS and > dedicate them to bug fixing. ... > bigger coding. This is not good idea. Agreed. > 2. Ask existing regular QGIS devs if they can spend more time with > bugs, when we would collect some money covering their time. > Again, if I can speak for my small company (located in poor EU country > :)), we are able to send for example 100 EUR each month to bug fixing > budget. If few other companies will join, we can have two half time > employed devs solving bugs. Are there any hardcore devs interested ? > What hourly rate do You expect ? I think current devs are already overcommitted, with a few exceptions. So it would be good if those who are available will clarify their position, so some companies could have an option. I think we especially need maintainers for unmaintained pieces of code. > 3. Employ some new C++/Qt dev and dedicate him to create complete test suite. > If new people are not good in bug fixing, they can be good to create > good test suite for all basic parts of QGIS. Is there anybody able to > design such tests and mentor developing ? We can find some skilled > students for this task or pay dev from one time public budget > collection. I think bringing fresh blood in is the best option. However, this can be expensive; I expect some of the larger institutions and companies that are using QGIS as a part of their core business will jump in and dedicate one or more developers. This is what is happening already, more or less informally. > 4. Establish QGIS QA team > Establish QGIS QA team and group of testers to regulary test every > supported platform against latest trunk. We would quickly address new I think this is a huge task, that nobody is able to do on a purely volunteer basis. Currently we rely on our growing user community to do the testing, and this proves rather effective. More comments welcome. All the best. -- http://www.faunalia.it/pc _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
