[QGIS-Developer] Keeping OTB algorithm in qgis processing

[Paolo Cavallini]

Il 01/02/2018 07:21, Victor Olaya ha scritto:
> +1 from me. This is exactly the reasoning behind my original proposal
> of removing providers from core. Whether the plugin is easy to
> maintain or not, it is better to do it outside. People responsible of
> the plugin can release whenever they want, and they can do changes
> without having to do PRs to the main repo (so less burden for core
> devs)
> 
> A plugin with a provider has much more to do with the provider app
> than with QGIS, and it makes sense to maintain it as a separate thing,
> and, if possible, done by the people that better know the external app
> (like the OTB team in the case of OTB)

Thanks Alex, Nyall, Victor for thoughts. It indeed makes sense.
What can happen realistically is, IMHO:
* someone will pop up taking the now orphaned providers, as it is
happening now for OTB --> success
* no one will find the resources for this, and QGIS will miss hundreds
of important algs --> failure
Of course this second possibility is scary to all those, that rely on
these algs. I am finding easier since too many years to find resources
for fancy styling and other cartographic tasks than for hard core
analyses, so I tend to be pessimistic, but let's see.
Thanks again.
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