Hi Nyall, Thank you for raising this topic, having worked with both GDAL and QGIS RFC/QEP systems, I agree that we can borrow the GDAL procedure, we just need to define the acceptance criteria (i.e. who can vote).
On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 11:52 PM Nyall Dawson via QGIS-Developer < qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org> wrote: > Hey all, > > This has been on my mind for a while -- I'd like to kick off > discussions about how we can rework (fix?) the QEP approach to make it > more useful for everyone. > > Right now we are just using GitHub issues for submission + comments on > QEPs. But this leads to an awkward ambiguity at the conclusion of QEP > discussion. Is a QEP ever really accepted? Does the end of discussion > mean it's approved? When do we formally "kill" a QEP when the > consensus is that it's not wanted? > > Right now everything just ends up in the same state -- an open ticket. > Maybe someone will label it with "implemented", but we're inconsistent > in doing that. > > It's REALLY hard to even just see what QEPs are locked in and which > should form part of QGIS development practices. This is preventing > them from being used for policy changes (eg > https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/304 ) > > In short, there's just a lot of ambiguity in the process. > > I think we could do better, and I'd suggest we follow GDAL's approach. > This would require: > > 1. Some formal policy for voting on QEPs, and corresponding criteria > for acceptance / rejection. > 2. Reworking the QEP documentation so that we don't use issues for > proposals, but rather use pull requests where the final proposal text > becomes a markdown page in the repository. > (3. anything else?) > > Thoughts? > > Nyall > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > -- Alessandro Pasotti QCooperative: www.qcooperative.net ItOpen: www.itopen.it
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