[Qgis-developer] new plugin scenario

[Martin Dobias]

Hi Richard

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde
<rdmailings at duif.net> wrote:
>
> I want it to be a 'proper' qgis plugin, so please correct me if I'm wrong:
>
> - I upload my code to github
> (what's the idea there: to put it in github in my own space:
> https://github.com/rduivenvoorde/ so others can fork/use it?)
>
> - I 'registre' the project to hub.qgis.org (thereby making it possible
> for others to issue bugs).
> http://hub.qgis.org/projects/qgis-user-plugins

Theoretically you don't need to create a project on github - when
registered on hub.qgis you should be able to get git repository
directly there. However obviously something is wrong with the server
settings, since the read-only URLs for repositories listed for various
plugins are not working, e.g.
$ git clone http://qgis.org/git/file-browser.git
Cloning into file-browser...
fatal: http://qgis.org/git/file-browser.git/info/refs not found: did
you run git update-server-info on the server?

Similarly the developer URL requires a password for 'gitosis' user and
it is not clear what password to enter.

@Pirmin / Alex - any  idea what's going on?


> - I upload the plugin to the plugin repositories:
> http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/ (for qgis >-= 2.0)
> http://pyqgis.org/ (for qgis <2.0)

plugins.qgis.org repository is nowadays mainly in testing mode, unless
you would like to help with testing it is sufficient to upload the
plugin to pyqgis.org. I foresee we will do some backwards incompatible
changes regarding the plugins (e.g. metadata in a text file, PyQt api
2), then we may announce that repository is ready for 2.0 only
plugins.


> Do I miss something here?
> Like: is there a central page do write some information about the plugin
> (I normally did that on my own server, but are happy to do that
> somewhere else (rst preferably).

On the hub.qgis when registered a project you get also a wiki,
documents, news and files section - probably everything you would need
for a plugin.


> Is there already a wikipage for this scenario? If not I will write this
> down in a page.

I am not aware of that.

Martin