Hi On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Alessandro Pasotti <apaso...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2015-11-08 22:36 GMT+01:00 Tim Sutton <t...@qgis.org>: > >> Hi >> >> On 06 Nov 2015, at 19:40, Alex M <tech_...@wildintellect.com> wrote: >> >> >> 8< ————— snip ------------ >> >> If a company wants something that makes it into Core, it should be >> pre-approved via a QEP. The fallback should be a plugin. >> >> I caution the use of $ to directly influence the QEP review and Pull >> Request reviews. Some sort of bounty pool, allowing core devs to get a >> stipend for clearing big reviews might be an option. So companies can >> contribute to QGIS and that money can go to expedite all QEP and Code >> reviews, but not a specific one. >> >> >> >> Agreed -We need salaried QGIS.ORG <http://qgis.org> staff that can >> review these things independently of who it comes from or if / how they >> have financed QGIS. >> >> Regards >> >> Tim >> >> > > I generally agree, but I would prefer if the salaried QGIS.ORG staff > would only act as a coordinator in managing the review queue coming from > not-core devs to guarantee scheduled times (since the core-devs go into the > quarantine queue with automatic approval if no one raise exceptions) and > should delegate/outsource the code review job to the core devs (or > externally if no one is available) and only if/when needed (i.e. because of > lacking volunteers). > > Yes that sounds reasonable... > We are not moving from a volunteer based project, do we? > Hopefully never, but it would be good to have people that work full time for the benefit of QGIS too.. > > I also wish to thank Hugo for starting this topic, it's not easy to talk > about this, since it crosses personal choices, philosophical believes, > economical interests etc... > Yes it's always nice to see how discussion about even difficult topics are handled in a nice friendly manner in QGIS world... Regards Tim > > > -- > Alessandro Pasotti > w3: www.itopen.it > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tim Sutton Visit http://kartoza.com to find out about open source: * Desktop GIS programming services * Geospatial web development * GIS Training * Consulting Services Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net Tim is a member of the QGIS Project Steering Committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kartoza is a merger between Linfiniti and Afrispatial
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