[Qgis-developer] plugin maintenance

[Paolo Cavallini]

Il 10/09/2015 10:44, Blumentrath, Stefan ha scritto:

> Recently, I updated the GarminCustomMap plugin which I developed a few
> years ago, because users reported that it crashes QGIS.
> 
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> 
> Unfortunately, the bug reports (the plugin uses the QGIS bug tracker
> system and repository) never were forwarded to me, so I noticed them
> only with a significant delay…
> 
> So I was wondering if it is preferred that plugin authors use their own
> versioning and bug tracking solution (github in my case)?

IMHO using only GitHub is the simplest option, and it works well enough.
Of course, I do not like it being proprietary software, but since QGIS
code is already there, I think we can't complain.

> Furthermore, the plugin worked nicely with QGIS 2.0 to 2.4. While
> problems were reported for 2.6 and later. I did not change the
> plugin-code in that period, so issues must have been introduced by
> external changes (likely in GDAL/OGR and their windows packages). I see
> that it is impossible to prevent such issues, as plugins are by nature
> not core. But how should plugin authors deal with that? Simply send bug
> reports back to QGIS (in my case it came from there…)?

Yes, I think that's the correct approach.

Thanks for the report.

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