From fwei15 at asu.edu  Fri Jun  1 12:14:39 2018
From: fwei15 at asu.edu (Fangwu Wei)
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 12:14:39 -0700
Subject: [Qgis-community-team] Question about identifying sliver polygons
 and assign each to the neighboring polygon that shares the same attribute
 value such as block ID
Message-ID: <CAGsg7fckpZ60P4LgkYpydwaHJMHMJ41VS47tJyWCP1Q7HLayYA@mail.gmail.com>

Dear QGIS fellows,

I know there's a feature in QGIS to eliminate sliver polygons and it can
also be implemented in standalone script. It seems like a blackbox to get
the results directly. Is there a way in standalone script to identify
(extract) sliver polygons? Also, can I use other parameters (e.g. the
neighboring polygon that shares the same attribute value such as block ID)
not the ones given in QGIS to assign slivers?

Thanks!

FW
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From lists at borysjurgiel.pl  Fri Jun 22 00:05:00 2018
From: lists at borysjurgiel.pl (Borys Jurgiel)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 09:05:00 +0200
Subject: [Qgis-community-team] Plugin author emails after the GDPR apocalypse
Message-ID: <2594166.BDCDzYBe3d@debian>

Hi List,

I've just got a ticket [1] pointing out the PyQgis Developer Cookbook assures 
plugin author emails are only visible for other authors [2], what actually 
never was true. The plugin manager allows to email the author once plugin is 
installed (the email is not in the repo xml, but still in metadata.txt file, 
what was apparently overlooked in this old commit [3]).

We can't do anything for the released versions. For future versions I can hide 
the email from the manager. It still will be present in the metadata.txt and 
able to access manually, so we could remove the part "so only visible to other 
plugin authors and plugin website administrators".

But honestly, for me it's one of key features if users can easily contact the 
author, although we should stick to what the said (especially if it's stated 
in other places too - is it?). 

How are your thoughts? Should I immediately hide it from the 3.2 and 3.0.4?

Borys


 
[1] https://issues.qgis.org/issues/19239x
[2] https://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/pyqgis_developer_cookbook/
plugins.html#plugin-metadata
[3] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation/commit/
63c7caf9ad905b7945cf73e097ff4d112ee24470




From tim at kartoza.com  Fri Jun 22 01:41:00 2018
From: tim at kartoza.com (Tim Sutton)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 10:41:00 +0200
Subject: [Qgis-community-team] Plugin author emails after the GDPR
 apocalypse
In-Reply-To: <2594166.BDCDzYBe3d@debian>
References: <2594166.BDCDzYBe3d@debian>
Message-ID: <04787DEE-1AF0-444A-AE9A-C704611B0F02@kartoza.com>

Hi

Why not just change the cookbook to remove this wording and keep things as they are?

Regards

Tim

> On 22 Jun 2018, at 09:05, Borys Jurgiel <lists at borysjurgiel.pl> wrote:
> 
> Hi List,
> 
> I've just got a ticket [1] pointing out the PyQgis Developer Cookbook assures
> plugin author emails are only visible for other authors [2], what actually
> never was true. The plugin manager allows to email the author once plugin is
> installed (the email is not in the repo xml, but still in metadata.txt file,
> what was apparently overlooked in this old commit [3]).
> 
> We can't do anything for the released versions. For future versions I can hide
> the email from the manager. It still will be present in the metadata.txt and
> able to access manually, so we could remove the part "so only visible to other
> plugin authors and plugin website administrators".
> 
> But honestly, for me it's one of key features if users can easily contact the
> author, although we should stick to what the said (especially if it's stated
> in other places too - is it?).
> 
> How are your thoughts? Should I immediately hide it from the 3.2 and 3.0.4?
> 
> Borys
> 
> 
> 
> [1] https://issues.qgis.org/issues/19239x
> [2] https://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/pyqgis_developer_cookbook/
> plugins.html#plugin-metadata
> [3] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation/commit/
> 63c7caf9ad905b7945cf73e097ff4d112ee24470
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Qgis-community-team mailing list for organizing community resources such as documentation, translation etc..
> Qgis-community-team at lists.osgeo.org
> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-community-team

—








Tim Sutton

Co-founder: Kartoza
Ex Project chair: QGIS.org

Visit http://kartoza.com <http://kartoza.com/> to find out about open source:

Desktop GIS programming services
Geospatial web development
GIS Training
Consulting Services

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From lists at borysjurgiel.pl  Fri Jun 22 02:03:27 2018
From: lists at borysjurgiel.pl (Borys Jurgiel)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 11:03:27 +0200
Subject: [Qgis-community-team] Plugin author emails after the GDPR
	apocalypse
In-Reply-To: <04787DEE-1AF0-444A-AE9A-C704611B0F02@kartoza.com>
References: <2594166.BDCDzYBe3d@debian>
 <04787DEE-1AF0-444A-AE9A-C704611B0F02@kartoza.com>
Message-ID: <7688262.bC0k2Sp3SO@debian>

Dnia piątek, 22 czerwca 2018 10:41:00 CEST Tim Sutton pisze:
> Hi
> 
> Why not just change the cookbook to remove this wording and keep things as
> they are?

It would be my preferable solution. And also the simplest and the only fully 
effective ;)

I'm just afraid some authors may feel cheated if they disclosed their emails 
being confident they are a bit less public... I exaggerate, don't I? :)

Borys



From cavallini at faunalia.it  Fri Jun 22 02:54:49 2018
From: cavallini at faunalia.it (Paolo Cavallini)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 11:54:49 +0200
Subject: [Qgis-community-team] Plugin author emails after the GDPR
 apocalypse
In-Reply-To: <7688262.bC0k2Sp3SO@debian>
References: <2594166.BDCDzYBe3d@debian>
 <04787DEE-1AF0-444A-AE9A-C704611B0F02@kartoza.com>
 <7688262.bC0k2Sp3SO@debian>
Message-ID: <48741f5f-9519-a5a9-5be7-0cc59cf987af@faunalia.it>

Il 22/06/2018 11:03, Borys Jurgiel ha scritto:
> Dnia piątek, 22 czerwca 2018 10:41:00 CEST Tim Sutton pisze:
>> Hi
>>
>> Why not just change the cookbook to remove this wording and keep things as
>> they are?
> 
> It would be my preferable solution. And also the simplest and the only fully 
> effective ;)
> 
> I'm just afraid some authors may feel cheated if they disclosed their emails 
> being confident they are a bit less public... I exaggerate, don't I? :)

IMHO users should use only the bugtracker. If the author wants to be
reachable he has other means. By default it would be good not to show
his address.
However, if it is in metadata.txt it will always be visible.
So options are:
* leave as it is, rephrase cookbook (some authors expressed privacy
concerns)
* remove it altogether (not so good, we need a way to contact the author
for administrative purposes)
* remove it from the plugin, ask to add it only to the django interface
(hidden from users).
Thoughts?
All the best.
-- 
Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html
https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=IT&q=qgis,arcgis

From tim at kartoza.com  Fri Jun 22 02:55:05 2018
From: tim at kartoza.com (Tim Sutton)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 11:55:05 +0200
Subject: [Qgis-community-team] Plugin author emails after the GDPR
 apocalypse
In-Reply-To: <7688262.bC0k2Sp3SO@debian>
References: <2594166.BDCDzYBe3d@debian>
 <04787DEE-1AF0-444A-AE9A-C704611B0F02@kartoza.com>
 <7688262.bC0k2Sp3SO@debian>
Message-ID: <538849FE-0F97-4624-AE4A-8BF73FB2D58B@kartoza.com>

Hi

> On 22 Jun 2018, at 11:03, Borys Jurgiel <lists at borysjurgiel.pl> wrote:
> 
> Dnia piątek, 22 czerwca 2018 10:41:00 CEST Tim Sutton pisze:
>> Hi
>> 
>> Why not just change the cookbook to remove this wording and keep things as
>> they are?
> 
> It would be my preferable solution. And also the simplest and the only fully
> effective ;)
> 
> I'm just afraid some authors may feel cheated if they disclosed their emails
> being confident they are a bit less public... I exaggerate, don't I? :)

I am sure that there will be at least one person who complains. The other 99.9999% of us won’t care :-) My suggestion would be to cater for the majority, not the minority…..

Regards

Tim

> 
> Borys
> 
> 

—








Tim Sutton

Co-founder: Kartoza
Ex Project chair: QGIS.org

Visit http://kartoza.com <http://kartoza.com/> to find out about open source:

Desktop GIS programming services
Geospatial web development
GIS Training
Consulting Services

Skype: timlinux
IRC: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net

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From cavallini at faunalia.it  Fri Jun 22 02:57:04 2018
From: cavallini at faunalia.it (Paolo Cavallini)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 11:57:04 +0200
Subject: [Qgis-community-team] Plugin author emails after the GDPR
 apocalypse
In-Reply-To: <538849FE-0F97-4624-AE4A-8BF73FB2D58B@kartoza.com>
References: <2594166.BDCDzYBe3d@debian>
 <04787DEE-1AF0-444A-AE9A-C704611B0F02@kartoza.com>
 <7688262.bC0k2Sp3SO@debian>
 <538849FE-0F97-4624-AE4A-8BF73FB2D58B@kartoza.com>
Message-ID: <97b82d6b-fd04-d9bb-cb52-91ed2b78ea16@faunalia.it>

Il 22/06/2018 11:55, Tim Sutton ha scritto:

> I am sure that there will be at least one person who complains. The
> other 99.9999% of us won’t care :-) My suggestion would be to cater for
> the majority, not the minority…..

this makes sense - in fact, I remember very few complaining about this.

-- 
Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html
https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=IT&q=qgis,arcgis

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From boazprosie at gmail.com  Sun Jun 24 01:12:03 2018
From: boazprosie at gmail.com (Boaz Bar Ilan)
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 11:12:03 +0300
Subject: [Qgis-community-team] cant synchronize coordination
In-Reply-To: <CA+H0G_FOR0vcC=Ar1OwiOiY60BDRh3UtGjfikgAnpTZYO0Dx6Q@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAP+w7XSk4Q=xwhqh4fez4HHL=W_eC7Etx095AfR-SR_Qa4VJqA@mail.gmail.com>
 <CA+H0G_FOR0vcC=Ar1OwiOiY60BDRh3UtGjfikgAnpTZYO0Dx6Q@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAP+w7XR9eSfhhmNsJUaasu2jdS_pJEqFMkZFXkEwpHM2Hxzs_g@mail.gmail.com>

*I keep getting this message*
* im  registered for a long time and im not a non member*
*can you help in this ?*
*thanks*
*boaz*

Your mail to 'Qgis-user' with the subject

    how many layers

Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval.

The reason it is being held:

    Post by non-member to a members-only list

Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive
notification of the moderator's decision.  If you would like to cancel
this posting, please visit the following URL:

    https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/confirm/qgis-user/
c532e47747ad9dfe6e94a76d553c573f98d7a48d



2017-11-01 2:59 GMT+02:00 Alexandre Neto <senhor.neto at gmail.com>:

> Hi Boaz,
>
> As I said before, you are using the wrong mailing list.
>
> For questions and help, please use this one instead:
>
> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
>
>
>
> Boaz Bar Ilan <boazprosie at gmail.com> escreveu no dia domingo, 29/10/2017
> às 13:48:
>
>> I get dwg layer , convert it to shp or/and to dxf and in both cases it
>> doesn't appear with the correct crs of the project and I cant work with
>> that.
>>  when I save this layer with the correct project crs - its not work
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> boaz
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Qgis-community-team mailing list for organizing community resources such
>> as documentation, translation etc..
>> Qgis-community-team at lists.osgeo.org
>> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-community-team
>
> --
> Alexandre Neto
> ---------------------
> @AlexNetoGeo
> http://sigsemgrilhetas.wordpress.com
> http://gisunchained.wordpress.com
>
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From rdmailings at duif.net  Sun Jun 24 01:28:54 2018
From: rdmailings at duif.net (Richard Duivenvoorde)
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 10:28:54 +0200
Subject: [Qgis-community-team]  cant synchronize coordination
In-Reply-To: <CAP+w7XR9eSfhhmNsJUaasu2jdS_pJEqFMkZFXkEwpHM2Hxzs_g@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAP+w7XSk4Q=xwhqh4fez4HHL=W_eC7Etx095AfR-SR_Qa4VJqA@mail.gmail.com>
 <CA+H0G_FOR0vcC=Ar1OwiOiY60BDRh3UtGjfikgAnpTZYO0Dx6Q@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAP+w7XR9eSfhhmNsJUaasu2jdS_pJEqFMkZFXkEwpHM2Hxzs_g@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <2eabad08-1fe2-3bba-7d65-ff8b77d92a6e@duif.net>

Hi,

I've moderated your message, and searched for your email address, but
this email address has never been on the user list.
There is another one boaz (***@netvision.***) though, maybe you
registred with another address?

Also note that you need to registre for every mailing list individually.

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde

On 24-06-18 10:12, Boaz Bar Ilan wrote:
> *I keep getting this message*
> * im  registered for a long time and im not a non member*
> *can you help in this ?*
> *thanks*
> *boaz*
> ****
> Your mail to 'Qgis-user' with the subject
> 
>     how many layers
> 
> Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval.
> 
> The reason it is being held:
> 
>     Post by non-member to a members-only list
> 
> Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive
> notification of the moderator's decision.  If you would like to cancel
> this posting, please visit the following URL:
> 
>    
> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/confirm/qgis-user/c532e47747ad9dfe6e94a76d553c573f98d7a48d
> <https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/confirm/qgis-user/c532e47747ad9dfe6e94a76d553c573f98d7a48d>
> 
> **//___^
> 
> 2017-11-01 2:59 GMT+02:00 Alexandre Neto <senhor.neto at gmail.com
> <mailto:senhor.neto at gmail.com>>:
> 
>     Hi Boaz,
> 
>     As I said before, you are using the wrong mailing list.
> 
>     For questions and help, please use this one instead:
> 
>     https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
>     <https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user>
> 
> 
> 
>     Boaz Bar Ilan <boazprosie at gmail.com <mailto:boazprosie at gmail.com>>
>     escreveu no dia domingo, 29/10/2017 às 13:48:
> 
>         I get dwg layer , convert it to shp or/and to dxf and in both
>         cases it doesn't appear with the correct crs of the project and
>         I cant work with that.
>          when I save this layer with the correct project crs - its not work
> 
>         thanks
> 
>         boaz
> 
> 
>         _______________________________________________
>         Qgis-community-team mailing list for organizing community
>         resources such as documentation, translation etc..
>         Qgis-community-team at lists.osgeo.org
>         <mailto:Qgis-community-team at lists.osgeo.org>
>         https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-community-team
>         <https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-community-team>
> 
>     -- 
>     Alexandre Neto
>     ---------------------
>     @AlexNetoGeo
>     http://sigsemgrilhetas.wordpress.com
>     <http://sigsemgrilhetas.wordpress.com>
>     http://gisunchained.wordpress.com <http://gisunchained.wordpress.com>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Qgis-community-team mailing list for organizing community resources such as documentation, translation etc..
> Qgis-community-team at lists.osgeo.org
> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-community-team
> 


From lists at borysjurgiel.pl  Tue Jun 26 04:34:37 2018
From: lists at borysjurgiel.pl (Borys Jurgiel)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 13:34:37 +0200
Subject: [Qgis-community-team] Plugin author emails after the GDPR
	apocalypse
In-Reply-To: <538849FE-0F97-4624-AE4A-8BF73FB2D58B@kartoza.com>
References: <2594166.BDCDzYBe3d@debian> <7688262.bC0k2Sp3SO@debian>
 <538849FE-0F97-4624-AE4A-8BF73FB2D58B@kartoza.com>
Message-ID: <2083188.NONcus9SyO@debian>

Dnia piątek, 22 czerwca 2018 11:54 CEST Paolo Cavallini pisze:
> IMHO users should use only the bugtracker. If the author wants to be
> reachable he has other means. By default it would be good not to show
> his address

One of the key values of the open source world is the easy communication we 
have within our community. For any purposes: asking questions, sharing 
knowledge, making contacts or even hiring the author. As a plugin author I 
really appreciate I'm not forced to fully disclose my email on websites (nor 
set up any contact forms with captchas) just to be accessible by users. As a 
plugin user, I appreciate the possibility of contacting authors easily, as 
bugtrackers are not appropriate for e.g. common networking. Btw. bugtrackers 
are also not so efficient, as most plugins use github with their unreliable 
notifications...

So my personal opinion is: it's a feature, not bug :) IMHO the only problem is 
some authors could disclose too valuable addresses and they should be warned 
somehow, so they can release a new version with new metadata ASAP. But it's 
impossible without spamming all the authors, so killing that feature of plugin 
manager would be an ugly workaround.

Dnia piątek, 22 czerwca 2018 11:55 CEST Tim Sutton pisze:
> I am sure that there will be at least one person who complains. The other
> 99.9999% of us won’t care :-) My suggestion would be to cater for the
> majority, not the minority…..

And then Paolo wrotes...
> this makes sense - in fact, I remember very few complaining about this.

So can I assume the final conclusion is to rephrase the cookbook rather than 
hide the address from the installer? If both chairmen don't find it so 
critical and there are no other votes, I'd go this way, adding a strict 
warning this time.

Best regards,
Borys



From cavallini at faunalia.it  Tue Jun 26 11:11:22 2018
From: cavallini at faunalia.it (Paolo Cavallini)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 20:11:22 +0200
Subject: [Qgis-community-team] Plugin author emails after the GDPR
 apocalypse
In-Reply-To: <2083188.NONcus9SyO@debian>
References: <2594166.BDCDzYBe3d@debian> <7688262.bC0k2Sp3SO@debian>
 <538849FE-0F97-4624-AE4A-8BF73FB2D58B@kartoza.com>
 <2083188.NONcus9SyO@debian>
Message-ID: <015fe581-a5e5-9a5e-28bf-ba5da36ac991@faunalia.it>

Il 26/06/2018 13:34, Borys Jurgiel ha scritto:

> And then Paolo wrotes...
>> this makes sense - in fact, I remember very few complaining about this.
> 
> So can I assume the final conclusion is to rephrase the cookbook rather than 
> hide the address from the installer? If both chairmen don't find it so 
> critical and there are no other votes, I'd go this way, adding a strict 
> warning this time.

Fine with me.
Thanks Borys.

-- 
Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html
https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=IT&q=qgis,arcgis

From maik.riechert at arcor.de  Thu Jun 28 12:15:19 2018
From: maik.riechert at arcor.de (Maik Riechert)
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 20:15:19 +0100
Subject: [Qgis-community-team] Plugin author emails after the GDPR
 apocalypse
In-Reply-To: <2083188.NONcus9SyO@debian>
References: <2594166.BDCDzYBe3d@debian> <7688262.bC0k2Sp3SO@debian>
 <538849FE-0F97-4624-AE4A-8BF73FB2D58B@kartoza.com>
 <2083188.NONcus9SyO@debian>
Message-ID: <18a8a754-508a-01d9-ced3-c3b56e46bd3e@arcor.de>

On 26/06/2018 12:34, Borys Jurgiel wrote:
> One of the key values of the open source world is the easy 
> communication we
> have within our community. For any purposes: asking questions, sharing
> knowledge, making contacts or even hiring the author. As a plugin author I
> really appreciate I'm not forced to fully disclose my email on websites (nor
> set up any contact forms with captchas) just to be accessible by users.
Currently, plugin authors *are* forced to fully disclose their email. It 
appears in their QGIS public source code repositories, as well as in the 
plugin manager. So you might as well put it publicly on your GitHub 
profile, right?

> As a
> plugin user, I appreciate the possibility of contacting authors easily, as
> bugtrackers are not appropriate for e.g. common networking. Btw. bugtrackers
> are also not so efficient, as most plugins use github with their unreliable
> notifications...
I honestly never had any issues with GitHub notifications. I would leave 
it to the plugin authors whether they want to engage in common 
networking or not and what kind of communication mechanism they prefer. 
I think most people are quite happy receiving issues via GitHub.

I'd like to ask again what the purpose of this email address is since I 
got different answers so far. I was told it was for "administrative 
purposes" only. What does this mean exactly? And is it true? From the 
above discussion it seems the purpose is more wide. My main confusion is 
also: What about the email address of the osgeo account? Isn't that 
enough for administrative purposes? Why is it not used?

Cheers
Maik

From rdmailings at duif.net  Thu Jun 28 13:12:15 2018
From: rdmailings at duif.net (Richard Duivenvoorde)
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 22:12:15 +0200
Subject: [Qgis-community-team] Plugin author emails after the GDPR apocalypse
In-Reply-To: <18a8a754-508a-01d9-ced3-c3b56e46bd3e@arcor.de>
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On 06/28/2018 09:15 PM, Maik Riechert wrote:
> I'd like to ask again what the purpose of this email address is since I
> got different answers so far. I was told it was for "administrative
> purposes" only. What does this mean exactly? And is it true? From the
> above discussion it seems the purpose is more wide. My main confusion is
> also: What about the email address of the osgeo account? Isn't that
> enough for administrative purposes? Why is it not used?

Hi Maik,

One reason I know is that we feel sort of responsible for the QGIS
plugins, so we (as PSC/QGIS community) think we have to be able to
contact plugin authors in case of problems (and during approval proces
of a plugin (...though that often goes via tickets in issue tracker).

Another reason is when somebody wants to take over maintenance of a
'stale' plugin. We always tell a new dev / wannebee-owner to first
contact the old owner for approval before 'taking over' a plugin...

But I think we (technically) could maybe try to keep it more 'secret'?
Though it is easier to just have them in the database for
plugins.qgis.org so that one can for example sent an email when your
plugin is approved or not. Not putting it in the metadata.txt/plugin.zip
would (I think) change the way we retrieve such info?

Using the osgeo (or qgis) email account seems a possibility (though the
redmine database is full with fake (non activated) email addresses
too).. and I'm not sure if we have enough/store information to connect
the osgeo-id to the login account (as: do we store the logged in osgeo-id)?

Note that the plugins site is: https://github.com/qgis/qgis-django, and
indeed we use the osgeo ldap service to authenticate.

As always: a lot is (technically) possible, we just need time (or hands,
hint hint) to do it :-)

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde

Ps reasons for getting different answers here, is just 'hey, we are
human': all friendly people here try to answer questions, there is no
Corporate Communication Department authorizing the answers given :-)

From tim at kartoza.com  Thu Jun 28 13:12:44 2018
From: tim at kartoza.com (Tim Sutton)
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 22:12:44 +0200
Subject: [Qgis-community-team] Plugin author emails after the GDPR
 apocalypse
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 <538849FE-0F97-4624-AE4A-8BF73FB2D58B@kartoza.com>
 <2083188.NONcus9SyO@debian> <18a8a754-508a-01d9-ced3-c3b56e46bd3e@arcor.de>
Message-ID: <A4F3C1A8-BDC1-43F9-B50A-0ADDCA19F864@kartoza.com>

Hi



> On 28 Jun 2018, at 21:15, Maik Riechert <maik.riechert at arcor.de> wrote:
> 
> 

8< —— snip ——

> I'd like to ask again what the purpose of this email address is since I got different answers so far. I was told it was for "administrative purposes" only. What does this mean exactly? And is it true? From the above discussion it seems the purpose is more wide. My main confusion is also: What about the email address of the osgeo account? Isn't that enough for administrative purposes? Why is it not used?

I think the answer is quite simple here: You are distributing your software using our (QGIS.ORG community) project infrastructures. We need to be able to get hold of you if your software is causing an issue etc. Furthermore users may want to engage with the author of a plugin to ask them things, collaborate, share ideas and so on. Being an open project it seems to me very consistent that things are transparent and contributors are contactable.

Regards

Tim



> 
> Cheers
> Maik
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