[QGIS-Developer] Orphaned QGIS StreetView Plugin

[Dieter Komendera]

Thank you Richard!

> Note about that the original repo is gone... I'm not sure if Google Streetview actually is OK with this kind of plugins, maybe he was afraid of legal stuff?
Knowing Google, I don’t rule it out completely, but as the plugin doesn’t scrape any data and just links to the public Street View page in the browser, it seems unlikely to me.

Anyway, I will try to contact the original owner.

all the best
Dieter


> On 02.02.2025, at 11:58, Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Dieter,
> 
> The proper way would be to ask the original owner of the plugin to take over ownership.
> (as admins we also have an email address for ever owner)
> 
> I'll sent you the mail addres in a separate mail (and put him in bcc for this mail).
> 
> Please contact the owner, and let him sent an email to this list telling it is ok to take ownership.
> 
> Then we can keep the same (good :-) ) name and you can take over ownership and upload new plugins.
> 
> (In case all fails, as in mail bounces or really not able to contact we can always move ownership)
> 
> Note about that the original repo is gone... I'm not sure if Google Streetview actually is OK with this kind of plugins, maybe he was afraid of legal stuff?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Richard Duivenvoorde
> 
> On 02-02-2025 00:13, Dieter Komendera via QGIS-Developer wrote:
>> Hello everybody,
>> I hope this is the correct place to ask for advice.
>> The StreetView plugin (https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/StreetView/) is one I regularly use. However, all the links from the plugin details (Code repository, Tracker, Plugin home page) are dead.
>> As I’m testing the macOS/arm64 Qt6 builds (https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/60039#issuecomment-2567661209) I adapted the plugin to be compatible with it Qt6 and am now looking if others are interested. As the original code repo seems to be gone, pushed my changes here: https://codeberg.org/kommen/QGIS-Streetview
>> How does the QGIS community deal with such apparently orphaned plugins?
>> Would it be acceptable if I create a new plugin entry on plugins.qgis.org <http://plugins.qgis.org/> with a slightly different name where I upload my Qt6 compatible version?
>> Thank you all in advance
>> Dieter
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