[QGIS-Developer] How are Featured Plugins Chosen?

[Paolo Cavallini]

Thanks Chris for your suggestions.
I'll do my best to implement some of them. More opinions and help will
be welcome.
All the best.

Il 31/01/2018 16:18, C Hamilton ha scritto:
> Here are my suggestions taking into account that this is highly
> subjective and different users are going to have their favorite plugins.
> Featured plugins should be bug free and have good
> documentation/tutorials on how to use them. Featured plugins should fall
> into one of several categories.
> 
> 1. Semi-permanent plugins that are used by a broad user community. (I
> wish there were a way to know what plugins people actually use - not
> just download.) The ones on the current list that I would place in this
> category are:
>     a. qgis2web
>     b. QuickMapServices - It may be that is becoming less important
> because of the XYZ Tile Server
>     c. Quick Finder
>     d. Time Manager - Perhaps this should be in category 2 although I
> use it.
> 
> 2. Plugins that have a high value to a part of the user community and I
> think they should be featured but not all the time. The ones currently
> in the list that I would place in this category are:
>     a. LRS - Useful to a small set of users
>     b. Qgis2threejs - Really cool visualization, but once again I think
> it is a smaller set of users
>     c. ScriptRunner - Useful for programmers.
>     d. Plugin Builder - Useful for beginning plugin developers.
> 
> 3. Plugins that are new that have some unique capability or have been
> evaluated to have a big impact.
> 
> The following plugins that are on the Featured plugin list I would
> suggest removing or perhaps occasionally rotating them through. I am not
> suggesting that they are not important. I'm sure that those who
> developed them use them, but I think they have a smaller user community
> so perhaps others should be highlighted. These include:
>     a. Layer Board
>     b. QConsolidate - Note that its plugin home page link is broken.
>     c. lizmap
>     d. Item Browser
>     e. GeoCoding - I like Quick Finder better
>    
> The following plugins could be candidates for occasional inclusion as
> least on a rotating bases.
>     a. Copy Canvas to Clipboard - This is a small set of people but
> useful if you want a snapshot of the canvas.
>     b. Data Plotly - QGIS 3 plugin so perhaps it should not be included
> until QGIS 3 becomes more mainstream, but it has great potential.
>     c. Lat Lon Tools - One of my most used plugins, but I am kind of biased.
>     d. Profile tool - I have used this on a number of occasions, but it
> needs better documentation
>     e. Split Features On Steroids - This is a newer plugin that I have
> found to be quite useful.
>     f. QGIS Resource Sharing - Should at least be featured sometime.
>     g. pgRoutingLayer - Important for those doing map routing.
>     h. Shape Tools - Another one I use, but once again I am very biased.
>     i. Other analysis plugins, but I am not sure which ones should be
> placed on this list. 'Hotspot Analysis' could be cool if it ever gets
> out of the experimental stage.
>    
> Quite frankly I am not sure how to judge candidates for inclusion
> because I am not looking at all of them and my interests and needs are
> going to be different from the next user, but it would be nice to
> feature different plugins that are unique to a set of the user community
> or different categories of plugins, why they are useful, and to have a
> nice write up about them.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Calvin
> 
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 4:28 AM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it
> <mailto:cavallini at faunalia.it>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi all,
>     thanks for this question. I confirm that the choice is subjective, done
>     by the many people included in the staff of plugin management. As
>     pointed out, this has been neglected in recent times. I'd welcome any
>     suggestion on plugins to include in or remove from the list.
>     One related issue is how to give more emphasis on user ratings: this
>     could be a useful guide for others, but has been underutilized, and not
>     prominently exposed. Ideas and contributions on this also welcomed.
>     All the best.
> 


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