[Qgis-developer] Openlayers plugin in 2.0 Was: QGIS 2.0 release and plugins

[Pirmin Kalberer]

Am Sonntag, 16. Juni 2013, 10.30:59 schrieb Richard Duivenvoorde:
> On 16-06-13 00:39, Anita Graser wrote:
> > I'm a bit worried about not having a functioning Openlayers plugin in
> > QGIS 2.0 for two months.
> > Can someone with experience in porting plugins estimate how much work it
> > really is to make it compatible with the new API
> 
> Hi Pirmin,
> 
> if we manage to release 2.0 before Brighton, I agree that the Openlayers
> plugin is one plugin which should be available at 2.0 launch.

According to Tims latest plan I don't expect the 2.0 release before Brighton.
So the OL plugin should be ready for 2.0 early enough.

> 
> Here locally I managed to get it running in current master (most of it,
> overview widget is not ok yet).
> But I do not want to force/stress Sourcepole or Matthias to put time in
> looking into it if they have more important things to do.
> 
> And maybe you have (bigger/other) plans with the plugin, like a
> refactoring or upgrade of bigger parts of the code. Or maybe you know
> with QGIS 2.0 there are non sip parts that will give problems?
> I can also imagine that you really want to support only ONE plugin
> working for both sip api versions.
> 
> But that said, I'm happy to put what I have now put on Github and ask
> for a pull request in a 2.0 branch (what I did is NOT compatible with
> 1.8). I'm also available if bugs pop up in that version in short future.
> 
> And I agree that Brighton is then a nice place to do the 'bigger' work
> for this really important plugin.

We're happy to integrate a pull request earlier. But as statet in the ticket, 
the patch has to be backwards compatible with 1.8. It is no option for us to 
maintain our plugins for two QGIS versions in parallel. This is some initial 
extra work, but will help us during the coming years to keep 1.8 users up to 
date.

Regards
Pirmin

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Pirmin Kalberer
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