[QGIS-Developer] New QEP: Kill evis

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

Given we haven’t heard from Peter for so long I guess I am +1 for ditching it.


Regards

Tim

> On 18 May 2020, at 23:47, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 18 May 2020 at 22:13, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:
>> It would be nice to have an inbuilt workflow in QGIS where you can just open a folder full of images, view them as a time sequenced track, maybe with some nice Temporal Controller integration that lets you play the images back in sequence, panning the map along from photo to photo.
> 
> For clarification: evis doesn't do this (import photos). It just shows
> photos linked to a table manually (i.e. the exact same behaviour as
> the native "external resource" widget).
> 
> However, the processing "Import geotagged photos" algorithm DOES do
> all this, except for the temporal configuration.
> 
> Nyall
> 
> 
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> Tim
>> 
>> On 18 May 2020, at 00:13, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Please see https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/176
>> for a proposal to kill the unmaintained legacy evis plugin for QGIS
>> 3.14.
>> 
>> It's completely unmaintained and full of legacy code, with zero
>> integration between the plugin and the rest of QGIS. If we kill it for
>> 3.14 then it gives organisations time to adapt (and possibly develop a
>> 3rd party plugin version if desired) prior to the next LTR release
>> (3.16).
>> 
>> There has been NO changes made to this plugin (aside from fixes to
>> avoid breaking QGIS compilation) for over 10 years. In 2010 a bug fix
>> was made to this plugin. In the following 10 years the ONLY changes
>> have been compilation fixes.
>> 
>> We've previously put out calls for interest in community members
>> stepping up to maintain this plugin, with zero interest.
>> 
>> Let's officially kill it and move on :)
>> 
>> Nyall
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>> Tim Sutton
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