[Qgis-developer] Plugin development from amateur...

[Alessandro Pasotti]

2012/3/6 Patrice VERCHERE <patrice.verchere at wanadoo.fr>:
> Hello,
>
> First, sorry for my english
> Second :
> I've upgraded the python plugin made by Mr Jurgiel "Profile", witch is now
> able to work with polyline, with on the fly projection of raster, and with
> multi-band raster. I'm "amateur" developer, and i think i'm quite
> representative of people who don't know so much about development, but want
> humbly to contribute ...
> I wanted to join Mr Jurgiel to see if there's a place (like git..) where i
> can find and modify the source. but i found nothing.
> Then, readinq qgis web pages, i learned that there is the site
> "http://plugins.qgis.org/" where plugin can be shared. I registered and
> shared the plugin.
> also, i decided to create a project under
> http://hub.qgis.org/projects/qgis-user-plugins, as recommended
>
> So, i've got some questions and remarks :
> - If Mr Jurgiel see my post, does he let me the right to share the plugin,
> whitch is under GNU LGPL ?

Yes, this is the way GPL works, you can create a new work based on
another work released under GPL , provided that your work is also
released as GPL.


(Do i need his agreement? - there's a copyright
> with his name on the top of .py code, what does it involve ?)

you should just leave copyright notice and add yours listing your modifications.

> - How do i know that the plugin is validated on http://plugins.qgis.org/ ?

The validation is really basic and automatic, it's a software
procedure which controls that the plugin has required metadata.

> And if he's not, how do i know why ?

You maybe are talking about plugin approval. Currently a lot of people
can approve plugins, usually the approval is very fast but there are
no clear responsibilities between developers so it might happen that
your plugin passes under silence, if this  is the case, please
complain (loud) on this list.

>  I think that de validation procedure is quite complicated, everybody should
> put a plugin on http://plugins.qgis.org/.

You are not the first to complain but I thing that clicking on "Share
a plugin" and upload a single file (no other actions are required) is
not really complicated.
Of course you must be a registered user, for security reasons we
cannot accept anonymous uploads.

> Maybe enabling comments about the
> plugin on this page should be a good way to :
>      -know if the plugin is good or not,
>      -simply have remarks about the plugin, without opening the tracker

This is in the pipeline... feel free to implement it if you can, but
keep in mind that most developers do not read comments but read the
bug trackers.

> procedures. That is simplier for lot of people.
> -Then, creating a project on http://hub.qgis.org/projects/qgis-user-plugins,
> i didn't succeed in creating project within the qgis-user-plugins projet. is
> it normal ?

I would say yes.

I cannot answer about the other questions, sorry.

Best Regards.

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Alessandro Pasotti
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