[Qgis-developer] "official" python plugins suggestions

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 12:04 +0100, Martin Dobias wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> it will be probably easier to discuss plugins for official repo here
> on mailing list as I think that arranging an IRC meeting would be of
> too much hassle. I suggest that these plugins should be official:
> 
> - plugin installer, mapfile export - they're already in source tree,
> but should be possible to update them
> - fTools
> - table manager
> - raster algebra
> - (maybe) html image map
> 
> Some of these plugins are in other repositories (and their developers
> probably prefer that), so I got the idea that official plugin
> repository could work just as a "proxy". On update of a plugin,
> authorized developer would just login to official repository and will
> use pull function that will get the copy of plugin's archive and
> metadata from the original repository. What do you think? Any other
> ideas how official repo should work?

> My other (and bigger) concern is about managing official repository
> (and repository of other contributed plugins). Gary has written he's
> going to set up official repository with limited write access and
> other one, open for everyone. But I guess he's quite busy with other
> things - until now I haven't seen any news about the progress.

I think he has finished making the official repo - he can no doubt
supply more info..


Regards

Tim

> Moreover, for future I think it's desirable that the repositories will
> be managed by someone with more time. By managing I mean either doing
> both changes in repository code when needed and giving permissions to
> official repository. There will be surely further improvements in
> plugins management and main repository should be able to react to
> these needs.
> 
> We should do also some improvements to repository metadata - along
> with much needed qgis_minimum_version tag there should be some more at
> least, I think:
> - last_update - date/time when the plugin has been recently updated
> (so that one can see whether the plugin is being maintained)
> - dependency - list of python modules which should be available for
> execution of the plugins (e.g. R, psycopg, gdal, ogr ...)
> - contact - author's email address in some spam-unfriendly format
> 
> Regards
> Martin
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