[Qgis-developer] Re: Complicate the plugin situation

[Denis Rouzaud]

Hi Paolo, hi all

I am not understanding what you mean by fiiling appropriate tickets.
My point with these messages was: I did what I read I should do, and 
when I uploaded my plugin, I got error/warning messages...
These are too big and flashy regarding to their importance (homepage, 
tracker, repo, etc.)

Also having to set sub-project and plugins is weird, as you have to fill 
the info twice. I tried to look for the page where you set tracker, repo 
etc. and cannot find it anymore. It's not clear if it's possible or not 
to give the repo and that it is automatically included in the hub/projects.
Why not having only one of the two for the plugins?

I also think that having developers to validate plugins is a useless 
job. Because having number of downloads and users rating (via QGIS?) and 
comments is imho far the best way of evaluating a plugin. Second, I 
don't like very much the delay for the plugin to be available (although 
I am known to be very impatient ;) ....

Well, to finish I'll say I am a little sad regarding to the amount of 
work that has been done on these website for the plugins. All these 
stuff seems great on its own. But it does look like there used to be a 
lack of aggreement / concertation. (I noticed the discussion on the 
wiki). I would suggest to have a single page for howto publish a plugin 
(1) and a single gateway to browse plugins, instead of many (2) and 
without any link from qgis home page (!!!)

I see that the discussion in the wiki 
http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/wiki/Python_Plugin_Repositories 
is going in that way and it's great. I know that this king of work is 
not very sexy for developers, but the gain for users and user-developers 
is huge!

(1) now:
http://plugins.qgis.org/
http://www.qgis.org/pyqgis-cookbook/plugins.html#releasing-the-plugin

(2) I could find these on the website:
http://hub.qgis.org/projects /sub-sprojects
http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/
http://pyqgis.org/
http://pyqgis.org/repo/official
http://pyqgis.org/repo/contributed
http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/wiki/Python_Plugin_Repositories 
(all the external)


On 01/19/2012 05:24 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Il 19/01/2012 17:07, 3nids ha scritto:
>
>> I have to say it is not a trivial task and might discourage people as it is
>> right now.
> Agreed.
>
>> There are inconsistencies in the page http://plugins.qgis.org :
>> -  the linked wiki
>> http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Writing_Python_Plugins has moved
> removed.
>
>> - As already stated, it tells you to register your plugin at
>> http://hub.qgis.org/projects/qgis-user-plugins where you cannot create a
>> project
> Can someone fix this please?
>
>> Also, when submitting the plugin, I needed to give a metadata file, which I
>> did not heard about. When I looked in PyQGIS cook book at writting plugins (
>> http://www.qgis.org/pyqgis-cookbook/plugins.html#writing-a-plugin ), the
>> info about metada is unclear and tells you to register the plugin at another
>> repo http://pyqgis.org/
> So the cookbook has to be fixed.
>
>> The warnings when you upload the plugin are somehow discouraging also....
> Can you please fill appropriate tickets suggesting better messages etc?
>
> Thanks a lot for the effort. With your help, the process can be streamlined.
>
> All the best.
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