<html><head></head><body><div class="gmail_quote">Il 6 dicembre 2016 23:00:50 CET, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson@gmail.com> ha scritto:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On 8 November 2016 at 11:24, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson@gmail.com> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi all,<br /><br /> Discussion is currently underway concerning the future of a number of<br /> the plugins which come preinstalled with QGIS.<br /><br /> This concerns the plugins:<br /><br /> - coordinate capture<br /> - evis<br /> - geometry_checker<br /> - georeferencer<br /> - heatmap<br /> - interpolation<br /> - offline editing<br /> - oracle raster<br /> - raster terrain analysis<br /> - road graph<br /> - spatial query<br /> - topology checker<br /><br /> If you're an active user of any of these plugins, your feedback would<br /> be greatly appreciated. You can join the discussion over at:<br /><br /> <a href="https://github.com/qgis/qgis3.0_api/issues/67">https://github.com/qgis/qgis3.0_api/issues/67</a><br /></blockquote><br />My original email didn't
result in much feedback at all from users.<br />I've been thinking further about this and I'm now wondering if we<br />should take a more aggressive stand with these plugins leading into<br />3.0.<br /><br />What I'd like to do now is put two of these plugins on "notice".<br />Specifically evis and oracle raster. No-one seems interested in<br />actively maintaining or improving them anymore. The only changes<br />they've seen in recent years are changes required to keep them<br />compiling. Oracle raster hasn't seen a bug fix since 2010 and no<br />enhancements since it was introduced in 2009, and evis last had a<br />specific bug fix in 2011 and last had a performance enhancement in<br />2009. I think it's safe to say these plugins have been abandoned by<br />their original authors.<br /><br />Given this, I think we should remove them from 3.0. First we could put<br />out a general notice saying they will be removed if no-one steps<br />forward to maintain (or sponsor) them. And
failing a positive result<br />from that remove them from 3.0.<br /><br />Nyall<br /><br /><br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><br /> Note that a number of preinstalled plugins have already been removed<br /> in 3.0 - specifically:<br /><br /> - geometry snapper: was generalised to work with all layer types and<br /> moved to a processing algorithm<br /> - zonal statistics: was moved to a processing algorithm<br /> - dxf2shp converter: was removed from QGIS - this conversion is better<br /> handled outside of QGIS, eg by using OGR tools directly.<br /><br /> Nyall<br /></blockquote><hr /><br />Qgis-developer mailing list<br />Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org<br />List info: <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer</a><br />Unsubscribe: <a
href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer</a></pre></blockquote></div><br clear="all">Seems reasonable to me.<br>
Thanks Nyall.<br>
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