[Qgis-developer] R: Duplicate plugins: proposal

[Niccolò Marchi]

(unfortunately) No suggestions for improvement except for setting that sentence as first and highlighting it as much as possible :)



The additional page was absolutely not meant to be on your shoulders but up to each developer with valid access, as a sort of “blackboard for notes”. When someone is testing more plugins dealing with a specific topic and finds similar functionalities, he can just add his notes as a reminder (open to the public). Pretty “informal”, let’s say, but useful to cluster plugins according to the effort of everyone who wants to contribute, instead of basing everything on your exclusive knowledge of each plugin.



Thanks for your time,



Niccolò







Da: Paolo Cavallini<mailto:cavallini at faunalia.it>
Inviato: mercoledì 8 giugno 2016 18:11
A: Niccolò Marchi<mailto:sciurusurbanus at hotmail.it>; qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>
Oggetto: Re: Duplicate plugins: proposal



Hi Niccolò,
thanks for your suggestions:

Il 07/06/2016 18:55, Niccolò Marchi ha scritto:

> 1.       An advice to “check for improvements before creating new and
> get in contact with the author”,

it is already here: http://plugins.qgis.org/

does not duplicate of existing functionalities or plugin, unless there
is a good reason

Please suggest wording improement if you think i is not clear enough.

> 2.       And/or an additional page (read-only for users) dealing with
> “proposed merges” where , the qgis developers who are testing more
> plugins similar to each other, can resume which features can be
> collected and from where.
>
> In the latter case, after a while, it could be then useful to send a
> general email to the plugin devs to get in contact with each other
> according to the “clustered scheme” that dinamically will be created.
> Plugin developers will still be free to keep their own plugin but, at
> least, it can stimulate the more collaborative ones. A sort of
> coordination proposal about what the project “needs”.
>
> In the worst  case, it may work as a general framework for future funded
> (?) projects.

Maintaining such a page is quite time consuming, and I cannot afford it.
What I regularly do is to suggest, directly to the developer, a merge
before approving new plugins, any time I see a potential for it.
This has met some very nice success.

All the best.

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Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu<http://www.faunalia.eu>
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