[Qgis-developer] Re: [GRASS-dev] Maintenance QGIS GRASS plugin / provider

[Marco Hugentobler]

Hi Soeren

Cool!

> But unfortunately i am not able to start right now. I am much to busy.
> I hope to start working on it in the 2. quater of 2010.

No problem at all.  I'm sure there will be enough interesting tasks to be done 
in the GRASS plugin also in 2010 ;-)


> I have curently little experience with qgis. I did not use it very often.
> But i am a C/C++ and Python developer with some Qt experience and
> have had a look on the grass-plugin sources. :)

Perfect. Just tell us when you need help.

Best regards,
Marco


Am Montag, 7. Dezember 2009 21.39:15 schrieb Soeren Gebbert:
> Hi Marco,
> i would like to help maintaining the grass plugin in qgis.
> But unfortunately i am not able to start right now. I am much to busy.
> I hope to start working on it in the 2. quater of 2010.
> 
> I have curently little experience with qgis. I did not use it very often.
> But i am a C/C++ and Python developer with some Qt experience and
> have had a look on the grass-plugin sources. :)
> 
> Best regards
> Soeren
> 
> 2009/12/5 Marco Hugentobler <marco at hugis.net>:
> > Dear GRASS devs
> >
> > I'm writing to you as the technical advisor of the QGIS project steering
> > committee. As such, I'm trying to make sure all the parts of the program
> > have a dedicated maintainer. Unfortunately, the GRASS plugin in QGIS has
> > no maintainer for quite some time now.
> >
> > The GRASS plugin was written by Radim in 2004. He did a great job,
> > maintained and improved the plugin successively until he left the team in
> > 2006. Since then, the plugin has no maintainer. Even if there was some
> > work on it after that, the GRASS plugin/provider is now the category with
> > the most open bugs in the bugtracker(35).
> >
> > I think this is a pitty, because the plugin has a large user base.
> > Especially (but not only) users new to GIS, are not familiar with the
> > GRASS command line. So they are happy to have the QGIS GUI and the
> > analytical power of GRASS in a graphical way.
> > If there is someone from the GRASS community who is interested in helping
> > to maintain the plugin, it would be greatly appreciated. In case of
> > technical questions and problems, we are available to help.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Marco
> >
> >
> > --
> > Dr. Marco Hugentobler
> > HUGIS - GIS programming and consulting
> > Webereistr. 66
> > CH-8134 Zürich
> > marco at hugis.net
> > http://homepage.hispeed.ch/hugis/
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> 

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Dr. Marco Hugentobler
HUGIS - GIS programming and consulting
Webereistr. 66
CH-8134 Zürich
marco at hugis.net
http://homepage.hispeed.ch/hugis/
Technical Advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee