[Qgis-developer] Feedback re future of core c++ plugins in QGIS 3.0

[Alexander Bruy]

There are two other plugins: Topology Checker and Geometry Checker.
IMHO their functionality should be merged and moved to analysis library.


2016-12-07 0:00 GMT+02:00 Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>:
> On 8 November 2016 at 11:24, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Discussion is currently underway concerning the future of a number of
>> the plugins which come preinstalled with QGIS.
>>
>> This concerns the plugins:
>>
>> - coordinate capture
>> - evis
>> - geometry_checker
>> - georeferencer
>> - heatmap
>> - interpolation
>> - offline editing
>> - oracle raster
>> - raster terrain analysis
>> - road graph
>> - spatial query
>> - topology checker
>>
>> If you're an active user of any of these plugins, your feedback would
>> be greatly appreciated. You can join the discussion over at:
>>
>> https://github.com/qgis/qgis3.0_api/issues/67
>
> My original email didn't result in much feedback at all from users.
> I've been thinking further about this and I'm now wondering if we
> should take a more aggressive stand with these plugins leading into
> 3.0.
>
> What I'd like to do now is put two of these plugins on "notice".
> Specifically evis and oracle raster. No-one seems interested in
> actively maintaining or improving them anymore. The only changes
> they've seen in recent years are changes required to keep them
> compiling. Oracle raster hasn't seen a bug fix since 2010 and no
> enhancements since it was introduced in 2009, and evis last had a
> specific bug fix in 2011 and last had a performance enhancement in
> 2009. I think it's safe to say these plugins have been abandoned by
> their original authors.
>
> Given this, I think we should remove them from 3.0. First we could put
> out a general notice saying they will be removed if no-one steps
> forward to maintain (or sponsor) them. And failing a positive result
> from that remove them from 3.0.
>
> Nyall
>
>
>
>>
>> Note that a number of preinstalled plugins have already been removed
>> in 3.0 - specifically:
>>
>> - geometry snapper: was generalised to work with all layer types and
>> moved to a processing algorithm
>> - zonal statistics: was moved to a processing algorithm
>> - dxf2shp converter: was removed from QGIS - this conversion is better
>> handled outside of QGIS, eg by using OGR tools directly.
>>
>> Nyall
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Alexander Bruy