[QGIS-Developer] Temporal controller issues

[Cory Albrecht]

> Please be very wary of your language in future -- every piece of feedback
worded like this directly equates to a developer losing interest in
volunteering their time on QGIS, to the harm of all.

I hear what you're saying, Nyall, I apologise if it sounded harsh, but what
do you want me to say after I find out that the latest of several bugs has
compromised my data and now I have to hunt down an unknown number of
duplicates silently created over the last few months of work? If you
empathise, do you understand how all these bugs and my data being
compromised might make me feel that this feature was not done very well and
that there was a lack of adequate testing?

> As background, I implemented time handling for vector layers as a VOLUNTEER
(completely unpaid). Would you have preferred I didn't do this, and we had
no time support for vectors at all?

As to what I would have preferred, well, I've reverted back to 3.10 to use
the old TimeManager plugin to avoid using the NTC. I would have preferred
that the feature branch you used to implement the NTC had not gotten merged
and the feature included in release versions until it had been checked to
work with and not break basic features like the selection tool. So now I
have to work under some Damoclean time limit for a couple of months until
3.16 replaces 3.10 and I will have no choice but to move to a version with
the NTC and these bugs.

On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 9:32 PM Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2 Jan 2021 at 10:23, Cory Albrecht <maps at hanfastolfe.com> wrote:
> >
> > Can somebody help me under the basics of how things work inside QGIS
> starting from when it loads all the features for a layer through the steps,
> and then finally drawing them on the map canvas, specifically with respect
> to the new temporal controller (NTC)?
> >
> > The issues caused by the NTC have been very frustrating for me as I make
> mostly (historical) timeline maps and I relied heavily on the old
> TimeManager (OTM) plugin by Antia Graser and group. So many tasks are now
> much more laborious or difficult because so many tools are just not
> time-aware.
> >
> > Was it not possible to add the NTC in such a way that would have still
> let all the other features work as before with the filtered feature set
> before being made time-aware, rather than confusingly operating on the
> unfiltered set? Or perhaps it shouldn't have been turned on until the
> infrastructure was there for the tools to be time-aware right away?
> >
> > Because I've just submitted yet another bug about the NTC, this time for
> the selection tool, and it has me more than a little annoyed. As a result
> of this bug I now have an unknown number of duplicate objects in multiple
> layers across multiple databases/projects that I unknowingly pasted into
> them over the past several months since the NTC was added to QGIS.
> >
> > I feel that the NTC was both poorly thought out and badly implemented as
> all these bugs would indicate.
>
> I can empathise with your frustration, but this is a very complex
> discussion!
>
> As background, I implemented time handling for vector layers as a
> VOLUNTEER (completely unpaid). Would you have preferred I didn't do
> this, and we had no time support for vectors at all? Please be very
> wary of your language in future -- every piece of feedback worded like
> this directly equates to a developer losing interest in volunteering
> their time on QGIS, to the harm of all.
>
> I've fixed two of your issues here
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/40834, as an UNPAID VOLUNTEER.
> Without funding I'm just not interested in fixing the snapping related
> issues. I don't personally have any need for these, and the QGIS
> snapping code isn't something I'm motivated in getting involved with
> at all. Perhaps there's another developer interested in looking at
> this, or perhaps a developer will take a look at this during the 3.18
> bug sprint. Or maybe someone will pay for this fix and financial gain
> will be the motivation.
>
> I like making the world a better place through volunteering my time on
> making a first-class desktop mapping application, but I'm far from
> being a slave to this, and my family, garden, and drum kit want my
> time too!
>
> Nyall
>
>
>
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