Il 22/07/2014 13:21, Jonathan Moules ha scritto: > Fair point, but then I'd ask - what would the cost be? Is it not something > that can > be covered by the current sponsorship given that a significant (or maybe just > significantly vocal ;-) ) portion of the community seems to be interested in > it?
simple answer: not. we would need more sponsors and donors for that. > I've > tried finding the financials for QGIS but failed; are they online publically > available? the normal way is approaching one of the core developers and asking for a quote; the issue here is that I'm sure the burden could be shared among several organizations, but engineering the financial mechanism for this would be tricky. > And this also goes back to the other questions I asked - how do other Open > Source > projects do it? I know GeoServer has no central pot and a much smaller > community yet > maintains multiple branches (at least 3!). their funding and development model is quite different, not easy to compare the two projects. > Just throwing money at a problem won't necessarily resolve it in the most > efficient > way possible. Knowing where it went wrong last time and how other projects do > it > seems like a logical starting place. right; IMHO the most simple yet correct way is to hire someone to do the backports and the release of the bugfix versions. not a trivial task though - it is quite easy to introduce new bugs while fixing old ones, so no guarantee that blind backporting actually improves the quality of the package. thanks for your interest. all the best. -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu Corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
