Hi Tim and all,
Documentation of the manual, documentation of Python API and managing
the bug queue (Giovanni) have separate items in the budget. So far it
hasn't been used at all - and the end of the year is coming rather
quickly. I believe it is more a lack of time than a lack of money - the
issue around documentation.
For managing the bug queue we have a budget of 1k € per release. Perhaps
this is not enough - I don't know how much time and effort Giovanni puts
into the issues management. I am happy to increase this amount a bit,
esp. since we did not have as many releases this year as usual.
As to reviewing the PR queue: no idea how much effort would mean, but it
would have to be done quickly (e.g. within the next week). Jürgen has to
comment on that. We can spend some money on getting the PRs reviewed,
but I would need an estimate (e.g. x days).
Greetings,
Andreas
On 27.10.2017 17:01, Tim Sutton wrote:
Hi all
According to our release schedule we now hit feature freeze:
2.99 in feature freeze since 10/27/2017, 2:00:00 PM
I am wondering what we will do with all the Pull Requests sitting in
the queue (currently 98) if people put PR’s into the queue and nobody
reviewed them / ok'd applying them? For example we (Kartoza) have
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/5379 which I think is important to
apply for 3.0. I am sure there are many others in the queue that
didn’t make it the code base before feature freeze.
My long term vision for QGIS is that we (QGIS.ORG <http://QGIS.ORG>)
eventually hire some professional (as in paid, not volunteers)
developers, documenters etc. to take care of house keeping things like
reviewing PRs, fixing bugs on a more sustained basis, maintaining the
web site, infrastructure etc. For the short term we have already
earmarked 54 days of paid effort for bug fixing leading up to the QGIS
3.0 release which is really great. Andreas will correct me if I am
wrong but I am sure we still have budget to support more than 54 days
of paid effort by core developers and it would be really great to also
include people like Giovanni Manghi (bug triaging), Yves Jacolin,
Harrisou (documentation) and other contributors into the paid
contributor programme leading up to the release.
But what about the PR queue? Is someone interested and capable of
devoting some days (on a for-pay basis) to go through and apply all
the ‘obvious’ PRs and dig in to the less trivial ones? Andreas can we
support this as well via our budget?
Regards
Tim
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