[Qgis-developer] OTB and LiDAR tools as separate plugins

[Victor Olaya]

Hi all,

I have set up the OTB and LiDAR tools Processing provider as separate
plugins, each of them in its own repo. The idea is to have those
providers that require 3rd party apps outside of the core Processing,
so they can be installed separately and managed independently. Alex
Bruy already did that for the TauDEM provider.

The removal of these two providers is in this PR (yet to be merged)

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/4076

LiDAR Tools and OTB plugins are in repos in my github account at the
moment, but they will be transfered. The OTB dev team has accepted
taking the ownership of the OTB plugin, and Martin Isenburg (creator
of LASTools) will take the ownership of the LiDAR tools one. They will
take care of managing them and making releases when needed

I hope this will help better organizing these pieces of Processing,
and making it clearer for users how to use these providers.

If you have any comment, please let us know.

Thanks!