[Qgis-developer] The new QGIS plugin repo

Sat Aug 21 15:47:38 EDT 2010

Am Samstag, 21. August 2010, um 10.06:51 schrieb Tim Sutton:
> Hi All
> 
> 
> Just a PSC perspecitive note on this, I think it will be useful when
> discussions are complete to simply summarise discussions and submit
> that summary as a proposal to the PSC for approval. In general the
> requirements (SVN, plugin specific access controls etc) are all doable
> but probably not easily on osgeo infrastructure due to the high admin
> load it will incurr. So an option would be to host the svn repo
> withing the QGIS.org VM.
> 
> I was wondering as well if this isnt a good place to start our first
> steps in using GIT?

+1!
If help is needed for creating a git infrastructure or choosing one of the git 
hosting sites, I could provide assistance.
If somebody wants to start working with Git right now, he can find an Git 
mirror of QGIS and some plugins on our github page:
http://github.com/sourcepole

Regards
Pirmin

> 
> Regards
> 
> Tim
> 
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Anne Ghisla <a.ghisla at gmail.com> wrote
> > On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 21:18 -0500, Maxim Dubinin wrote:
> >> sounds good, Borys!
> >> 
> >> I understand your concerns and support your idea.
> >> 
> >> As there are quite many details and QAs already about new proposed
> >> plugin distribution system, it'd be nice to see it laid out as a
> >> single text and updated based on discussions, not to sift through
> >> dozen of emails. May be in wiki (sorry if it exists already and I
> >> missed it).
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I started collecting ideas on
> > http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Python_Plugin_Repositories
> > 
> > edits welcome!
> > 
> > cheers
> > Anne
> > 
> >> Maxim
> >> 
> >> Вы писали 1 июля 2010 г., 18:27:12:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Dnia czwartek, 1 lipca 2010 o
> >> 
> >> 19:49:19 napisałeś:
> >> > We're currently hosting 11
> >> 
> >> plugins at our repo. The process is
> >> fully
> >> 
> >> > automated and once set up the
> >> 
> >> author only commits to svn, all the
> >> 
> >> > other steps are done
> >> 
> >> automatically using post-commit
> >> hooks.
> >> 
> >> > As for moving, unsure yet. I'm a
> >> 
> >> big fan of diversity and ability of
> >> 
> >> > any person not only create a
> >> 
> >> plugin, but distribute it the way
> >> (s)he
> >> 
> >> > likes or even irrationally wants.
> >> 
> >> Erik Raymond has a good essay about
> >> this
> >> 
> >> > on Lockean rights. It is
> >> 
> >> additional stimulation for a
> >> opensource developer
> >> 
> >> > to realize that this is _his_
> >> 
> >> territory. Centralized plugin repo
> >> will
> >> 
> >> > technically be the same, but
> >> 
> >> psycologically somewhat different.
> >> 
> >> > That said, I can see a lot of
> >> 
> >> value for a new author in this
> >> system.
> >> 
> >> > I'd say keep all options and let
> >> 
> >> natural opensource selection do its
> >> 
> >> > job. This will introduce some
> >> 
> >> hassle for Borys, but I believe it
> >> worth
> >> 
> >> > it for QGIS growth as not only
> >> 
> >> software, but community.
> >> It's not a problem for me, but I
> >> believe hanging connections and
> >> error messages are not the best way
> >> to growth of the community ;-) I
> >> agree we (authors) fell better
> >> maintaining our own repositories,
> >> but we can't satisfy such needs at
> >> the users' expense! :)
> >> I see a sense in keeping your
> >> repository, what is always online,
> >> responsibly managed and quite rich.
> >> But we have 11 external
> >> repositories added by the 'add 3rd
> >> party repos' button. Most of them
> >> contains 2-3 plugins and cause most
> >> problems. Moreover, there are next
> >> 5 repos not included yet. It isn't
> >> fair that they are treated worse,
> >> but the more repos I add, the more
> >> often problems happen.
> >> So the compromise would be to offer
> >> to authors of small repositories a
> >> more convenient, robust and
> >> reliable solution and try to
> >> encourage them to join it. This way
> >> we can limit the number of external
> >> repositories added by the button to
> >> really necessary 3-5.
> >> Other Authors will have a choice:
> >> - to join the community repo
> >> - to maintain their own, but not
> >> included by the button
> >> - to maintain their own and justify
> >> it's reasonable to add it
> >> I understand the need of diversity,
> >> but users should trust that
> >> clicking this unfortunate button
> >> they won't be flooded by dozens
> >> unreliable repositories :)
> >> 
> >> > PS: I wrote a detailed
> >> 
> >> description with scripts of our
> >> commit system
> >> 
> >> > sometime ago. If someone is
> >> 
> >> interested (please use Google
> >> Translate
> >> 
> >> > panel on the left).
> >> 
> >> http://gis-lab.info/qa/qgis-repo-update.html
> >> 
> >> http://gis-lab.info/qa/qgis-repo.html
> >> Гугле панель суцкс. Я давна не
> >> читал русские буквы, но я пытаюсь
> >> что-то понять ;)
> >> Cпокойной ночи, goodnight!
> >> B.
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