Re: [QGIS-Developer] Stale bot and older requests/issues - possible enhancement

2021-01-08 Thread Charles Dixon-Paver
I agree with Jorge and am personally not a fan of a simple "pay a commercial partner" message, which is why I think a separate link like Matthias suggested is a great idea, and any message which might be interpreted as "It's open source, so fix it yourself" could be harmful. I think a large part

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Stale bot and older requests/issues - possible enhancement

2021-01-08 Thread Jorge Gustavo Rocha
Hi, I have a different opinion on this. We should emphasis the community component of our QGIS open source project. Just asking to pay if they want the issue solved, is what any commercial software project does. It does not help to create new contributors. Reporting and working on issues is

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Stale bot and older requests/issues - possible enhancement

2021-01-08 Thread Greg Troxel
I am not a fan of a bugtracker pushing people to sponsored development by spamming each issue with it. It's perfectly reasonable to assign a label that means basically "this issue appears legitimate but no one has expressed interest in working on it", and make the pointer to either 1) maybe you

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Stale bot and older requests/issues - possible enhancement

2021-01-08 Thread r.agui...@utwente.nl
github.io/> - The essential is invisible to the eye. Saint-Exupéry From: QGIS-Developer On Behalf Of Charles Dixon-Paver Sent: 08 January 2021 07:44 To: Alexandre Neto Cc: qgis-developer Subject: Re: [QGIS-Developer] Stale bot and older requests/issue

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Stale bot and older requests/issues - possible enhancement

2021-01-07 Thread Charles Dixon-Paver
How about something like: Unfortunately this issue has not been addressed by the QGIS community for some time. If you would like to expedite the resolution of this issue and more like it, please refer to the https://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/facilitation.html;>facilitating development guide

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Stale bot and older requests/issues - possible enhancement

2021-01-07 Thread Alexandre Neto
On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 11:44 PM Nyall Dawson wrote: > > > What I'm trying to convey here is that there's a chance the ticket > will be addressed without sponsorship, but if they DO sponsor it will > get addressed immediately. So "fast track" here means something a > little like "short cut". Is

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Stale bot and older requests/issues - possible enhancement

2021-01-07 Thread Nyall Dawson
On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 at 09:25, Alexandre Neto wrote: > > As an user and member of a user group, the message does not offend at all. > This is something we struggle to explain to users and it's a good opportunity > to send the message. > > I prefer a long version instead of just a link (many

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Stale bot and older requests/issues - possible enhancement

2021-01-07 Thread Alexandre Neto
As an user and member of a user group, the message does not offend at all. This is something we struggle to explain to users and it's a good opportunity to send the message. I prefer a long version instead of just a link (many won't click on it) I am not a native english speaker, but I think

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Stale bot and older requests/issues - possible enhancement

2021-01-07 Thread Jürgen E . Fischer
Hi Stefan, On Thu, 07. Jan 2021 at 12:55:22 +, Stefan Steiger wrote: > Also, if you use commercial software, you probably meant to say proprietary software - as you correctly said free software is not required to be free of charge and hence can be commercial too. > As with plugins: > As

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Stale bot and older requests/issues - possible enhancement

2021-01-07 Thread JD L
. > > As long as you only use it internally (e.g. on a WebServer), you don’t > have to abide by the terms of the GPL (the Affero > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License>/Application-Service-Provider > loophole). > > > > > > > > *Von:* Q

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Stale bot and older requests/issues - possible enhancement

2021-01-07 Thread Giovanni Manghi
> I've a small request to consider for stale bot and issues/feature > requests. I think that if a ticket remains open for say > 90 days > since the last comment, it would be nice if stale bot added a comment > like: > > "Unfortunately this bug/feature request has not seen any solution in > the

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Stale bot and older requests/issues - possible enhancement

2021-01-07 Thread Stefan Steiger
10:10 An: Matthias Kuhn Cc: qgis-developer Betreff: Re: [QGIS-Developer] Stale bot and older requests/issues - possible enhancement Hi As a user and employee of a French administration, I think what is proposed would be an excellent reminder. Open source is not free. Le jeu. 7 janv. 2021 à 09

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Stale bot and older requests/issues - possible enhancement

2021-01-07 Thread JD L
Hi As a user and employee of a French administration, I think what is proposed would be an excellent reminder. Open source is not free. Le jeu. 7 janv. 2021 à 09:33, Matthias Kuhn a écrit : > Hi Nyall, > > I would also appreciate a hint like this. > Maybe it could be done even more subtle by

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Stale bot and older requests/issues - possible enhancement

2021-01-07 Thread Matthias Kuhn
Hi Nyall, I would also appreciate a hint like this. Maybe it could be done even more subtle by shortening this text and adding a link to a page "learn how to make things progress"? I'd also very much appreciate the voices of users on this topic (that's a classical "we don't only want to hear the

[QGIS-Developer] Stale bot and older requests/issues - possible enhancement

2021-01-06 Thread Nyall Dawson
Hi list, I've a small request to consider for stale bot and issues/feature requests. I think that if a ticket remains open for say > 90 days since the last comment, it would be nice if stale bot added a comment like: "Unfortunately this bug/feature request has not seen any solution in the recent