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

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

Duh.. sorry for this reply, did not load the newer messages apparently :-(

On 15-06-16 08:20, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
> 
> 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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