[QGIS-Developer] debugvs plugin maintenance

[Lova Andriarimalala]

Hi everyone,

I agree with Nagase's suggestion. As a maintainer of the Plugins
Repository, I would not advise transferring ownership unless the current
owner has confirmed it.

Best regards,

Lova Andriarimalala


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On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 at 03:43, Ko Nagase via QGIS-Developer <
qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hi ilan, Valentin and Plugin Repository Maintainers,
>
> I am the author of the PR (
> https://github.com/lmotta/debug_vs_plugin/pull/18),
> and I appreciate you raising this issue.
>
> Personally, I suggest creating a new plugin - such as "debugvs2"
> (https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/debug_vs2/),
> rather than transferring ownership of the plugin.
> Because I feel changing the ownership of an existing plugin without
> the current owner's confirmation is a bit risky as FOSS spirits.
>
> But I want to confirm the Plugin Repository Maintainers' opinion.
>
> Best regards,
> Nagase
>
> 2025年6月14日(土) 3:41 Valentin Buira <valentin.buira at gmail.com>:
> >
> > I don't have any rights over this, but that's a +1 for me as well.
> >
> > I would also like to highlight that the issue preventing Ilian and
> > others from using the plugin affects Windows and MacOS users. And
> > since QGIS on Windows accounts for the majority of users (and plugin
> > users ! )  according to  QGIS's own metrics this makes targeting and
> > debugging plugins for the most popular platform even more challenging.
> >
> > As Ilian said, a fix exists[1]. While I did not review the PR, the fix
> > is working for me locally.  The author of the PR seems to be a member
> > of OSGeo Japan and maybe he would like to be involved too ?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Valentin
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/lmotta/debug_vs_plugin/pull/18
>
> ---
>
> 2025年6月5日(木) 23:17 Ilan REDON via QGIS-Developer
> <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>:
> >
> > Hi people,
> >
> > I, like some others I would assume seeing the 10k+ downloads, am using
> regularly the QGIS plugin "debugvs"
> https://github.com/lmotta/debug_vs_plugin .
> > The last pull request, fixing an issue that prevented me and others from
> using the plugin, is now 2 years old and has not received any comment from
> the owner.
> > So I contacted lmotta on the 28/04/2025 on his public email but received
> no answer, his github also showing no recent public activity.
> > With of course all due respect to them I would like to keep a
> functioning state of this plugin published on the official repository.
> > Could we transfer ownership of this plugin to me or any other volunteer,
> to at least review and merge contributions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > ilan/persephone
> > lmotta/debug_vs_plugin: Plugin to Enable Debug for Visual Studio( tested
> in Visual Studio Code) - GitHub
> > Plugin to Enable Debug for Visual Studio( tested in Visual Studio Code)
> - lmotta/debug_vs_plugin
> > github.com
>
> --
> Ko Nagase (sanak)
> mail: geosanak at gmail.com
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