List of Project Steering Committee Resolutions - 2020

Documentation of new features

Date of voting: 2020-01-07

Proponent: Marco Bernasocchi

Proposal: Documenting new features is difficult, and documentation lags behind code. Proposal: Mandate that all new features are accompanied by documentation (which should be in a well described, parsable section of the PR description).

Votes: In favour: Anita, Marco, Paolo, Tim Abstain: Jürgen

Decision: Approved

Notes: none

PyQgis Cookbook revision

Date of voting: 2020-03-18

Proponent: Alessandro Pasotti

Proposal: The proposal is to make a revision of the current cookbook text and code snippets in order to: - update the text and the code snippets - put ALL code snippets under the existing automated Python test CI infrastructure. See thread at: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-psc/2020-March/008282.html

Budget: 4000 €

Votes: In favour: Paolo, Marco, Anita, Tim, Andreas, Jürgen

Decision: Approved

Notes: none

Keep QGIS apps list in historical order

Date of voting: 2020-03-17

Proponent: Marco Bernasocchi

Rationale: The current ordering reflects the history of the QGIS mobile apps where QGIS for android (and it’s new named QField) delivered all the base work on which Input was then based ( https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Website/pull/725)

  • +1 Anita

  • +1 Paolo

  • +1 Marco

  • +1 Tim

  • +1 Jürgen

  • +1 Andreas

Remove QGIS for android Buttons

Date of voting: 2020-03-17

Proponent: Marco Bernasocchi

Rationale: QGIS for android is old and deprecated and now called QField

  • +0 Anita (or just remove download buttons and keep deprecation note)

  • -0 Marco

  • +0 Tim (update text*, remove links)

  • +0 Jürgen

  • +1 Andreas

Use of proprietary software

Date of voting: 2020-04-07

Proponent: Paolo Cavallini

Rationale: Free software should be the first choice for all the tools we use. We should choose proprietary alternatives only when it is proven that free software fails to provide a reasonable solution. The PSC should vote in case a proprietary solution is suggested.

  • +1 Jürgen

  • +1 Paolo

  • +1 Andreas

  • +1 Marco

  • +1 Anita

New refined grant process

Date of voting: 2020-04-15

Proponent: Anita Graser

Proposal: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-psc/2020-April/008639.html

Rationale: The grant process has been enhanced as discussed in https://github.com/qgis/PSC/issues/31

  • +1 Anita

  • +1 Tim

  • +1 Andreas

  • +1 Marco

  • +1 Jürgen

  • +1 Paolo

Clarify the „Use of proprietary software“ motion from 2020-04-07 to make the process more explicit and organised:

Motion from last month: “Free software should be the first choice for all the tools we use. We should choose proprietary alternatives only when it is proven that free software fails to provide a reasonable solution. The PSC should vote in case a proprietary solution is suggested.”

Date of voting: 2020-05-12

Proponent: Tim Sutton

Proposal: The following steps should apply to both a) new solutions as well as b) replacement solutions:

  • Someone proposes a new or replacement platform.

  • They propose a migration strategy for existing content that needs to move to that platform (if applicable).

  • They propose who will do the migration (if applicable).

  • They propose what, if any, funding implications there are.

  • They propose a timeline for the migration/rollout.

  • They describe how the infrastructure is managed and if it is self-hosted (e.g. do we have backups, who has admin, who fixes issues).

  • We vote on it having been given reasonable time to consider the above information and test out the alternative.

  • Assuming we vote to agree with the proposal.

  • We then start using the new platform.

Vote:

  • +1 Tim

  • +1 Marco

  • +1 Anita

  • -1 Paolo

  • +1 Alessandro

  • Jürgen

  • +1 Andreas

Fund documentation grant proposals from documentation budget

Date of voting: 2020-06-03

Proponent: Anita

Proposal: fund QGIS Server documentation enhancement (https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/184) and Documentation Grant Proposal (https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/183) directly from the documentation budget

Votes: In favour: Marco, Jürgen, Anita, Andreas, Alessandro, Paolo

Decision: Approved

Notes: none

Change grant voting mechanism

Date of voting: 2020-06-03

Proponent: Andreas

Proposal: voting members can select up to 6 proposals they want to support (each proposal gets 1 point) with no ranking of the selected ones

Votes: In favour: Marco, Jürgen, Anita, Andreas, Alessandro Abstain: Paolo