[Qgis-developer] Re: Add QScintilla2 PyQt module to QGIS Distributions?

[Martin Dobias]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
> Il 12/02/2012 23:15, Larry Shaffer ha scritto:
>
>> didn't want to break it trying out new ideas (i.e. start doing forks and
>> merges). It's my opinion that most new dvelopers won't even need it for most
>> small projects.
>
> -1: I think an SCM is a necessity, to speed up collaboration. E.g., in case
> of API breakage, a dev can go round all the plugins and fix them quickly,
> whereas waiting for all authors to understand and apply the fix can be very
> long.

I share Larry's opinion - for a small one man show project SCM is not
necessary. Of course at some stage it is useful to introduce it.

Regarding API breakage and fixing plugins by someone else - I do not
support that. Even though plugin code may be hosted at hub.qgis, only
the plugin author is the real owner of the code - it is not in public
domain. Therefore doing some changes without author's permission (and
releasing new version on his/her behalf) does not sound good to me.
Also from the practical point of view - core developers doing some API
breakage will surely not going to update dozens of contributed plugins
in order to make them work again.

Regards
Martin