Hello all Sorry for opening this can of worms, and thanks to all of you for very kind words. But obviously, let's move on from the personal to the general point, not least to stop my looking as though I was fishing for compliments. I very much was not.
Nyall Dawson wrote >> possibly >> reinforces the (otherwise seldom apparent) clique nature of devs in >> general >> and the QGIS core devs in particular... > > To begin: there's obviously no secret agenda or deliberate 'inner > circle' here, so any closed nature of the community has been an > accidental organic process vs a deliberate decision. 100%. Compared to other projects to which I've contributed, this is an incredibly welcoming, supportive, and friendly community. I said "otherwise seldom apparent" deliberately. I could probably have said "otherwise never apparent". I could even broaden this out to the whole geo community - both Leaflet and, back in the day, MGOS devs have always welcomed tentative and initially nervous contributions from hobbyists. Nyall Dawson wrote > So, if you feel comfortable doing this, can you (or any others who > have also felt this way) give some pointers on how we can 'break' this > and becoming a more welcoming community? So in that light, my point just refers to this issue. Again, I knew that the issue I've raised was unintentional, so simply tweaking this process and language will do the job. Matthias and I discussed some possibilities off-list: - label "core QGIS developer" - label plugins which have testing/CI I'll check back to see if I missed anything else. Thanks for running with this discussion. It should have a moderately simple solution - just haven't quite found it yet. Thanks again Tom ----- Buy Pie Spy: Adventures in British pastry 2010-11 on Amazon -- Sent from: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/QGIS-Developer-f4099106.html _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
