[QGIS-Developer] QGIS Plugin site

Wed Feb 12 23:13:17 PST 2025

Hi

On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 1:06 AM Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 at 10:10, DelazJ via QGIS-Developer
> <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Le 13 février 2025 01:02:14 GMT+01:00, Emma Hain <emma at north-road.com>
> a écrit :
> > >Hi All
> > >Lova, the site looks amazing and thanks for all of your work on it.
> > >
> > >I am asking on behalf of one of my clients how does a plugin become
> > >featured?
> >
> > Ha ha ha I think this question was raised years ago and I'm not sure
> what was the answer, if any. I wanted to browse the archives to find that
> before I ask again, but given that you did it, I second your question. This
> is the only group whose description doesn't clarify what it is.
>
> If they've all been manually picked at some time, can I suggest we
> drop these ones from the list?
>
> - Processing R Provider: it's quite a niche one, and requires a lot of
> technical knowledge to get it to do anything in the first place
> - Plugin builder/plugin reloader: these are plugin *developer* focused
> plugins. I think the featured list should concentrate on user-focused
> plugins.
> - Mask: this is an older plugin, predominantly superseded by inbuilt
> QGIS functionality now
> - Time manager: as above
>
>
Thanks we will take care of that. As for the process of how things get
featured: There isn't any formal process in place. In the past someone (not
clear to me who) would nominate plugins to be featured, but it was done on
a whim I believe. Maybe we should unfeature everything and come up with a
formal process. I think being featured could be used to:

* raise the profile of less known plugins
* highlight 'game changer' plugins (e.g. some of the new AI based ones are
really interesting)
* highlight plugins that provide key complementary functionality to QGIS
e.g. QuickOSM, Ismail's new resources plugin etc.

We didnt really advertise it too much but we also have analytics on the
plugins repo and one of Lova's todo tasks is to improve the insights we can
gain from the plugins repo activity. If we can come up with something more
algorithmic to feature plugins we could use the metrics to do it but I
think it is probably more of a subjective process. Maybe we can have a
'nominate and vote' process and also make being featured ephemeral (e.g. 1
month).

http://plugins.qgis.org/public/dashboard/7ecd345f-7321-423d-9844-71e526a454a9

@Lova Andriarimalala <lova at kartoza.com> can you surface the metrics into
the new plugins site submenu please (with a user friendly subdomain e.g.
plugin-metrics.qgis.org?

Regards

Tim

> Nyall
>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Harrissou
> > >
> > >Kind regards
> > >Em
> > >
> > >Emma Hain — Product Manager/Senior GIS Analyst
> > >emma at north-road.com
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> > >
> > >On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 at 06:07, Tim Sutton via QGIS-Developer <
> > >qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Yes Lova did all the work, I just tasked him to do it, great job Lova!
> > >>
> > >> Regards
> > >>
> > >> Tim
> > >>
> > >> On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 6:22 AM DelazJ via QGIS-Developer <
> > >> qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Hello,
> > >>> And thank you also, Lova.
> > >>> You all did a nice work.
> > >>>
> > >>> Harrissou
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Le 12 février 2025 06:46:15 GMT+01:00, Lova Andriarimalala via
> > >>> QGIS-Developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> a écrit :
> > >>>
> > >>>> Hello Nathan,
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Thank you very much for your feedback, and a huge thank you to Tim,
> the
> > >>>> PSC, the donors and everyone else who contributed to the website.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Best regards.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Lova Andriarimalala
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
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> > >>>> On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 at 14:42, Nathan Woodrow via QGIS-Developer <
> > >>>> qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> Hey,
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> I know it's been a long time but I just visited the QGIS plugin
> site
> > >>>>> and I just wanted to say how great it looks.  Whoever did that
> redesign
> > >>>>> (yes I should have been paying attention sorry) should be super
> proud with
> > >>>>> how it turned out.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Makes the whole project look super professional. It's great to see
> how
> > >>>>> far it has come over the years back from when it was first started.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> - Nathan
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