[QGIS-Developer] Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin deprecated

[Paolo Cavallini]

Hi Richard,


Il 06/06/2018 11:39, Richard Duivenvoorde ha scritto:

> Well, no offence either, but I think humans in general are conservative
> and like habits and structure :-)
> 
> So Matthias' (probably valid) point is: now we deprecated the (old
> Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin), people get lost because the miss
> there 'old/valuable/' plugin...
> Fact is also that older plugins popup earlier in google results if you
> google for certain words.
> 
> So the best way to handle this is to 'market' (better working) plugins
> more by maybe writing some blogposts, make people aware of your plugin
> in mailing lists etc etc?
> 
> In this way natural selection/evolution should make that the
> plugin-dino's finally get extinct because of Google finding the
> alternatives :-)
> 
> In general I think it is ok to deprecate plugins! In this case: an
> unmaintained buggy one, which has better alternatives... why keep it?
> But we have to find an (for us easy) way to help people who got lost
> because of a deprecation...
> (while writing I see Thomas is answering: I put a pointer to better
> working plugin in a fixed version. I think that is a good solution!)

as it often happens, I fully agree with you. Let's keep on reducing
duplication and confusion among users.

All the best.
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