Re: [Qgis-user] Check Geometries: nice tool, but bad integration

2019-10-01 Thread Alexandre Neto
Hi, Actually, users-oriented-crowdfundings have proven quite successful in the past. And it works something like this: - A small number of non-developers members of the community (aka users) discuss and gather ideas of how to improve or implement a certain feature; - They contact one or more core

Re: [Qgis-user] Check Geometries: nice tool, but bad integration

2019-09-30 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Hi Tobias, On 30/09/19 21:32, Tobias Wendorff wrote: > Maybe we should think about a concept, LibreOffice uses: Either a user > delivers a patch or pays for the bug fix or feature. this is what we are suggesting, and what we do normally. > Croundfunding is > unfortunately still too expensive c

Re: [Qgis-user] Check Geometries: nice tool, but bad integration

2019-09-30 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Dear Régis, thanks for your words. I'm DevOps for myself, not in an open source project, but I know the adversity and I also have a life after work (LoL, no, I don't). Financially it is not possible for me to support developers of FOSS. All I can do is report bugs, suggest improvements, and dist

Re: [Qgis-user] Check Geometries: nice tool, but bad integration

2019-09-30 Thread Régis Haubourg
Hi Tobias, thanks for raising issues here. The state of the geometry checking tools indeed needs some work and rencetralisation of legacy tools. Still, I suggest you take a look to this nice presentation we had in latest FOSS4G https://media.ccc.de/v/bucharest-322-the-secret-life-of-open-source-dev

[Qgis-user] Check Geometries: nice tool, but bad integration

2019-09-29 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi there, I like the "Check Geometries". It's damn slow, but it's damn powerful and it really finds problems in geometries (other than GEOS often does). But what I don't like is the bad integration in QGIS3. 1. The "run" button is hidden on the "last page", not on the same dialog like "close". S