[Qgis-developer] new plugin repo online

[Alex Mandel]

On 02/23/2011 12:42 AM, Václav Řehák wrote:
> 2011/2/23 Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>:
>> Il giorno mar, 22/02/2011 alle 11.14 -0900, Gary Sherman ha scritto:
>>> The site still needs some work and is not ready for general use. I can publish your plugin but until all plugins are migrated and the official repo changed over, it won't be visible to the plugin installer in qgis.
> 
> Thanks for approving. I understand the switch to the new repo in QGIS
> itself will happen later but it is OK for me to add
> http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/plugins.xml as repo myself.
> 
> 
>> Thanks Gary.
>> Who is working on this? Who is leading? What is still missing? I can
>> help if necessary. I think publishing it is a priority.
>> We should also prepare a short howto for plugin developers to learn how
>> to use the new site.
> 
> Yes, it would help a lot if there was a wiki page or something
> describing the current state and planned features.
> 
> Btw, is there a way (or planned way) to automatically create the
> plugin zip file from a git repo and publish it on
> http://plugins.qgis.org/ ?
> This is a quite annoying step in the process of a plugin release.
> 
> Vaclav

That feature has been discussed, is way down at the bottom of the todo
list but is quite possible. We are looking for python programmers to try
and implement it in django if you are interested in helping.

Thanks,
Alex