[QGIS-Developer] debugvs plugin maintenance

Tue Jun 17 23:10:38 PDT 2025

Hi,

Via via on Telegram, somebody told me Luiz said he is going to have a look this weekend.

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde

On 16-06-2025 09:09, Richard Duivenvoorde via QGIS-Developer wrote:
> FYI, I have been trying to contact him also.
> 
> Another option I'm trying is to contact the Brazilian user group, asking if they know if he is still active in the foss/qgis universe. They are active on channels I'm not :-) Maybe others can ask there?
> 
> Else: I'd second the idea of a debugvs2 plugin
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Richard Duivenvoorde
> 
> On 16-06-2025 07:58, Lova Andriarimalala via QGIS-Developer wrote:
>> 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.
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>> Best regards,
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>> On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 at 03:43, Ko Nagase via QGIS-Developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>> wrote:
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>>     Hi ilan, Valentin and Plugin Repository Maintainers,
>>
>>     I am the author of the PR (https://github.com/lmotta/debug_vs_plugin/pull/18 <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/ <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
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>>     2025年6月14日(土) 3:41 Valentin Buira <valentin.buira at gmail.com <mailto: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 <https://github.com/lmotta/debug_vs_plugin/pull/18>
>>
>>     ---
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>>     2025年6月5日(木) 23:17 Ilan REDON via QGIS-Developer
>>     <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org <mailto: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 <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 <http://github.com>
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>>     --     Ko Nagase (sanak)
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