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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I think the PyQGIS Cookbook is the perfect place to share these
scripts. The Cookbook is not the API reference documentation. It
is the place to share solutions for common problems using the QGIS
API.</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Jorge<br>
</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Às 08:34 de 20/10/20, Charles
Dixon-Paver escreveu:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Personally I feel like this outlines a greater
problem of snippet sharing in many developer communities and is
not a problem that is well suited to the resource sharing
plugin, or even a single traditional GitHub repo.
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<div>My personal approach was to set up a subdirectory on GitHub
with code snippets and add a pyqgis subdirectory (although I
don't have a useful collection of things yet). I don't really
like gists for something I want to maintain or have
discoverable, so I use this dedicated repo instead. I would
suggest if you plan on creating a number of different snippets
that you create a similar one, or if you want to collaborate
or make an occasional contribution then suggest an
alternative.</div>
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<div>From my experience with the community it seems like a lot
of the most useful snippets are scattered throughout
conversations on the mailing lists, or within stack overflow.
When working with the Esri platform and Web App Builder, there
were a couple of repositories with custom widgets etc but the
GeoNet forum was also probably the biggest resource for types
of things like code snippets, although it had similar
limitations to what I've experienced with pyqgis, perhaps with
slightly better discoverability since I only really looked in
one place and if I couldn't find something I didn't waste
extra time searching across various platforms.</div>
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<div>Personally, I dislike stack overflow for a number of
reasons. For one, I've found it's platform gamification has
always led to a weird passive aggressive attitude from
community members. The GIS site seems a lot more welcoming,
but as a general rule, I just straight up don't like the
platform because of this. The amount of unnecessary question
reformats and edits for points is just painful to witness. The
system itself has pretty funky issues as well - like flagging
questions as duplicates but not providing links to those
duplicates. Or where the OP directly posts links to duplicates
but explicitly states the solutions don't work, only to have
their question closed anyway... In any event, I think there's
a lot of people like me that only end up there when Google/
DuckDuckGo takes us there... Which leads to the typical stack
overflow issue of all code being horribly outdated and nothing
actually works. Most of the snippets I find on SO are for QGIS
2 anyway. It's also not pyqgis specific.</div>
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<div>The mailing lists themselves I find have poor code
discoverability, but I don't think a forum would resolve this
and would likely just fragment the community further.</div>
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<div>For personal use, the best tool I've found for
snippet management has been <a
href="https://github.com/snibox/snibox" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/snibox/snibox</a>
but I don't know how well that scales. I used to use dokuwiki
too, but it takes a lot of effort to format stuff and is more
of a publication tool, but I don't see a quality wiki being
maintained without significant effort.</div>
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<div>Your question has prompted me to set up a <a
href="https://github.com/zacharlie/awesome-pyqgis"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/zacharlie/awesome-pyqgis</a>
repository.</div>
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<div>This way we can collectively maintain an up to date list of
resources for PyQGIS, including up to date links for
documentation, tutorials and training, and links to people's
repositories. If something like this already exists and my
list is redundant, please someone let me know so I can delete
it before we put any significant work into it, and share
something better so that the community knows about it.</div>
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<div>I'm open to other suggestions.</div>
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<div>Regards</div>
<div><br>
</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 at 00:38,
<<a href="mailto:qgis-user@stripfamily.net" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">qgis-user@stripfamily.net</a>>
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<div> Is there a place where folks can contribute scripts that
others might find useful? I know about the Resource Sharing
plug-in, which is a way to point to a repository one is
maintaining. I'm thinking more of a common repository where
some might contribute the odd script. There's an archived
git repository in qgis/QGIS-Processing->scripts, but
that's no longer active.<br>
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