[Qgis-developer] plugins.qgis.org

[Matthias Kuhn]

Thank you for raising the discussion Richard,

I agree, the plugin landing page should be mainly targeted at users. A
short description + picture for the best plugins ever, see e.g.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/, https://extensions.gnome.org/ ...

and have a link to a dev section somewhere.

And I would also like to stress the requirement for other auth providers.
If I remember correctly, the decision to stick to redmine was taken
under the assumption that the mantra is a temporary workaround.

Matthias

On 11/09/2016 10:36 AM, Nathan Woodrow wrote:
> +1 to move that to dev section.
> 
> However on that note: how hard is it to connect other providers for
> authentication? Google, Facebook, etc I know people like the OSGeoID
> thing, but having other options isn't bad.
> 
> - Nathan
> 
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 7:24 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde
> <rdmailings at duif.net <mailto:rdmailings at duif.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     We (as osgeo SAC admins) receive a lot of requests for the osge-mantra
>     from QGIS users, just because they think you need that to use plugins.
> 
>     I think it is because plugins.qgis.org <http://plugins.qgis.org>
>     lands on a page in which it says:
>     "In order to access to some functionalities of this website you will
>     need to login with a valid OSGEO ID."
> 
>     I think it has something to do with the fact that we
>     plugins.qgis.org <http://plugins.qgis.org>
>     was first 'hub', a collection of some QGIS/django/issues related
>     web-apps.
>     But now plugins.qgis.org <http://plugins.qgis.org> is actually only
>     plugins (+ a user map and planet)
> 
>     I propose either to cleanup the django app, so it is ONLY plugins, and
>     maybe create another small app for all the rest apps (usermap, planet)
> 
>     OR to remove the landing page, and move that text to the dev part of the
>     website. The landing page could be a more generic page maybe, telling
>     that you install plugins via the plugin manager, and this app is only if
>     you want to upload plugins?
> 
>     Another option would be to remove the little login-man from the
>     frontpage.
> 
>     It is getting annoying to answer all the user requests for a mantra,
>     just because they want a plugin...
> 
>     Regards,
> 
>     Richard
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