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

[Borys Jurgiel]

Dnia środa, 7 marca 2012 o 10:08:32 Patrice VERCHERE napisał(a):
> Thank you for your answers !
> 
> One first thing : i'm fan of qgis and now it's quite ok to use it for my
> job. I know it's simple to criticize something, but it's difficult to do
> the job. Unfortunatly, i don't know how making the work i'm talking
> about...

Don't worry. The QGIS "ecosystem" is growing, so it takes some time to grasp 
it all ;) Anyway, glad to see you're ready to act :)

> Borys : I've uploaded the plugin in http://hub.qgis.org and made you and me
> admin of the plugin. the first commit is your original plugin. Is it ok
> for you ? I did it like that because i want to continue working on it ...

Great! Thanks. There are more points on the TODO list, hopefully I'll be able 
to come back do the development later this year.

One remark, it should be placed inside "User Plugins" rather than in the top 
level (your problems seem to be a bug, it should work). 

Hey Admins, can anybody move it or should we remove it & create again?

> Then, i was talking about the plugin approuval and not about validation....
> sorry. Maybe indicating in http://plugins.qgis.org/ something like "Go to
> Qgis plugin repo and click on Share a plugin. The approuval procedure
> takes 2 weeks maximum. If not approuved, a e-mail will be sent to you."
> should be a good thing...

Oh yes! Such instructions would be precious. A common help webpage for whole 
the hub would be the easiest to implement, and hopefully enough. The present 
link to oryginal redmine guide is quite unsuitable for most users.
 
Instead of mailing, the user could see his unapproved plugins and their status 
on the list. In this case the admin could just fill a note for ech plugin (e.g. 
"please fix A and B"). And the user would be informed about plugin metadata 
changed.

> Then, when writing "Register your plugin at
> http://hub.qgis.org/projects/qgis-user-plugins. The user plugin section on
> hub can show plugin info, let users add issues/tickets for your plugin and
> to have just ONE repository for all qgis plugins", actually it's not
> possible. 
> Project can only be created in http://hub.qgis.org/projects/. So
> is it possible to enable creating project in ..../qgis-user-plugins or
> just say "Register your plugin at http://hub.qgis.org/projects/ ...." ?

It's a bug I think. I was told already about problems with creating projects 
inside this section. But for me it works well. Don't you see an "Add 
subproject" button on http://hub.qgis.org/projects/qgis-user-plugins ?