Hi > On 10 Mar 2020, at 22:55, Nyall Dawson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 at 03:31, Alessandro Pasotti <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I've always felt it was an implicit agreement, but I totally agree >> that making it explicit is a good idea. > > Yep, it's been more or less "understood" practice for some time, but > I'd like it to be official so there's no room for misunderstand. > >> Where exactly would you suggest to add that kind of statements? > > I'd put it in a new section under > https://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/developers_guide/ Maybe > something like "development policies"?
Sounds good to me! Regards Tim > > We could word it something like: > > "While new feature submissions are always highly appreciated, every > feature added to QGIS comes with an associated maintenance burden for > the project. Accordingly, some policies exist to avoid placing this > burden on the existing QGIS development team: > - Following any new feature development, it is the original > developer's (or organisations) SOLE responsibility to proactively > monitor and implement bug fixes relating to the new feature (or > regressions to other parts of QGIS which have resulted from its > development). This extends up to the next major QGIS release following > the feature being merged*. It is NOT acceptable to use QGIS.org > sponsored bug fixing efforts to implement these fixes. Failure to > provide fixes to all reasonable bug reports raised for a > new feature may lead to that feature being reverted prior to release. > - After this major release, the developer is still expected to monitor > the bug tracker for issues relating to their work and implement > reasonable fixes at their own expense. > " > > Nyall > > >> >> >> -- >> Alessandro Pasotti >> w3: www.itopen.it > _______________________________________________ > 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 — Tim Sutton Co-founder: Kartoza Ex Project chair: QGIS.org Visit http://kartoza.com <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 I'd love to connect. Here's my calendar link <https://calendly.com/timlinux> to make finding time easy.
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