[Qgis-psc] QGIS Plugin website application maintenance

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

I think this should be paid by the Project! As EVER QGIS users uses this
infrastructure.

Can you please sent a guess/estimation for the amount of days?
And please try to involve others in the work, so knowledge is spread.

As I was trying to set it up, one of the problems is that a lot of
custom (non maintained) modules are used. We should reall stick to core
functionality (so no more OL maps?) I think so to make both development
and complexity as small as possible.
Happy to help if you make the branch you work on available on github so
I can try to follow at least.

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde

On 12/03/2019 10.00, Alessandro Pasotti wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> As you all know, I originally wrote the plugin management Django
> application that runs on plugins.qgis.org <http://plugins.qgis.org>.
> 
> I maintained the application for quite some time but after the HF in
> Girona I clearly stated and told anybody that I did want to focus on
> QGIS C++ development and I did not want to maintain the web application
> anymore.
> 
> Despite that, I've been occasionally asked (last time it happened one
> week ago) to make small changes, which I did.
> 
> Please notice that the application has been running fine for the last 8
> years without major updates (which is quite surprising for a web
> application) and there is no urgent need for upgrades.
> 
> Now I've got an email from Richard mentioning problems migrating to a
> new server (because the plugin application is 8 years old and we need to
> upgrade a lot of dependencies).
> 
> Let me state it clear: Richard did not directly ask for my help, but I
> felt kind of obliged to step in and help (I can only blame myself for that).
> 
> So, long story short: I'm currently working on the port of the plugins
> application to Django 2 and Python 3  (note: only the plugins, I'm not 
> going to work on the other apps). This port will take quite some time
> (probably days).
> 
> Once this is completed, please find another maintainer because I do not
> want to spend my limited volunteer time on that task.
> 
> Thanks for your understanding.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Alessandro Pasotti
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