[Qgis-developer] The new QGIS plugin repo

[Maxim Dubinin]

BJ> We can also ask all repo owners if they would be willing to move to such
BJ> convenient central repo. Hey, are you here, Owners?

We're currently hosting 11 plugins at our repo. The process is fully
automated and once set up the author only commits to svn, all the
other steps are done automatically using post-commit hooks.

As for moving, unsure yet. I'm a big fan of diversity and ability of
any person not only create a plugin, but distribute it the way (s)he
likes or even irrationally wants. Erik Raymond has a good essay about this on Lockean rights. It
is additional stimulation for a opensource developer to realize that this is
_his_ territory. Centralized plugin repo will technically be the same,
but psycologically somewhat different.

That said, I can see a lot of value for a new author in this system.
I'd say keep all options and let natural opensource selection do its
job. This will introduce some hassle for Borys, but I believe it worth
it for QGIS growth as not only software, but community.

Maxim

PS: I wrote a detailed description with scripts of our commit system
sometime ago. If someone is interested (please use Google Translate
panel on the left).
http://gis-lab.info/qa/qgis-repo-update.html
http://gis-lab.info/qa/qgis-repo.html


Вы писали 1 июля 2010 г., 12:25:00:

>> > Perhaps I am over simplifying things here, but my concern is that we
>> > will loose many valuable plugins simply because we are imposing
>> > structure on plugin developers who may not want it (i.e. they might
>> > already have their own code repository that they prefer using, or
>> > indeed do not want to have to learn an additional tool such as svn).

BJ> We can also ask all repo owners if they would be willing to move to such
BJ> convenient central repo. Hey, are you here, Owners?  

BJ> We can start from converting the present central repo (what is needed anyway)
BJ> and then try just start to encourage them without any pressure.
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