[Qgis-developer] Future of OpenLayers plugin - time to deprecate?

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

Maybe first discuss with Author (in cc)?

As the maintainers used to put a lot of work into the plugin. In my view
it is not very polite to retract/depricate a plugin.

Best I think would be (if Pirmin and Matthias are ok with it), to
temporarily depricate it, AND show with a message in the description
that there is a working alternative.
This would give SP time to fix, without time pressure.

Unless off course the Plugin is being depricated by the authors too....
Then it could just be removed.

Maybe we should have a mechanisme in the plugins to do such messages?
For example: "This plugins is not working properly because.... (eg
Webkit/Debian)" or "This plugin is deprecated in favour of ..."?

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde

On 14-06-16 23:04, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Makes sense to me. Going to deprecate it tomorrow if nobody objects.
> Thanks Nyall.
> 
> Il 14 giugno 2016 22:25:06 CEST, Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> ha
> scritto:
> 
> 
> 
>     On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 9:57 PM, Nyall Dawson
>     <nyall.dawson at gmail.com <mailto:nyall.dawson at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
>         On 31 Dec 2015 7:33 AM, "Nyall Dawson" <nyall.dawson at gmail.com
>         <mailto:nyall.dawson at gmail.com>> wrote:
>         >
>         > Hi all,
>         >
>         > The email chain below is just one example of a user who has issues
>         > with QGIS after installing the OpenLayers plugin. Stackexchange is
>         > filled with similar examples (See
>         > http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/qgis-openlayers-plugin).
>         >
>         > I'm wondering if it's time we discussed the future of this plugin. Now
>         > that we have a viable replacement (Quick Map Services) which doesn't
>         > demonstrate these issues, should we deprecate the OpenLayers plugin
>         > and remove it from the plugin repo?
> 
>         Can we revisit this discussion again?
> 
>         I'm very much in favour of:
>         1. Removing openlayers plugin from the repo asap. This plugin is
>         broken and unfortunately is harming the reputation of the
>         project, as many users cannot distinguish the difference between
>         the plugin's issues and problems with QGIS itself (eg see
>         https://twitter.com/thatkindofplace/status/742543174573260800?s=03 )
> 
>         2. Rename QuickMapServices as "QuickMapServices (OpenLayers
>         replacement)" on the plugin repo, so users looking for
>         openlayers are nicely directed to the new plugin
> 
>     ​+1 for all the reasons above.
> 
>     Thanks for reviving this Nyall!
> 
>     Best wishes,
>     Anita​
> 
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