[QGIS-Developer] SAGA GIS plugin maintenance

[Stefano Campus]

First of all, thank you all for your feedback.

It is clear that the problem is not (solely) the SAGA plugin, but rather a
perspective on the sustainability of open-source projects, which, I
imagine, Nyall has rightly raised.

To avoid any misunderstanding and in response to Greg’s comments, in this
context I am simply a user who used to use SAGA very frequently some time
ago; as the features of QGIS/ Processing have improved and expanded, I
hardly use it anymore, except for rasterisation, which allows complete
control over the rasterisation values when, for example, I have overlapping
points, and SAGA allows you to choose whether to assign the minimum,
average, maximum, sum, etc., to the raster cell – a function that GDAL does
not have.

However, I reiterate that I consider Nyall’s decision to be a ‘provocation’
(in a positive sense, let’s be clear) to draw attention to sustainability.

Jurgen has stated the difficulty in keeping up with SAGA’s developments,
which are often unannounced, and attempts at structured collaboration –
correct me if I’m wrong – with SAGA’s maintainers have not yielded good
results.

So, returning to the specific case, I believe the solutions could be:

1) SAGA is no longer a third-party module provider, as it no longer
develops or maintains any plugins;

2) specific voluntary contributions are found, either short-term or
long-term

tertium non datur!


Regards

s.




Il giorno gio 21 mag 2026 alle ore 13:41 Stefano Campus <skampus at gmail.com>
ha scritto:

> If I’m not mistaken, over the years, the SAGA maintainers haven’t paid
> much attention to integration with QGIS; proof of this is that they’ve
> changed the structure of the modules, renamed them, and so on, without
> making any announcement or contacting the QGIS maintainers in any way
>
> Il giorno gio 21 mag 2026 alle ore 11:53 <
> qgis-developer-request at lists.osgeo.org> ha scritto:
>
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>> *Bas Couwenberg* sebastic at xs4all.nl
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>> On 5/21/26 11:53 AM, Stefano Campus via QGIS-Developer wrote:
>> >* Do you think it would be a good idea to propose to the Steering Group that
>> *>* its maintenance be taken on directly by the QGIS.org Foundation and that a
>> *>* certain sum (1000–2000 euros?) be set aside in the annual budget for its
>> *>* maintenance?
>> *
>> No, I think it makes more sense for the SAGA developers to commit to maintaining the QGIS plugin which will likely motivate them to stabilize their interface.
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>>
>> Bas
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