[Qgis-psc] QGIS Plugin website application maintenance

[Alessandro Pasotti]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 10:29 AM Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net>
wrote:

>
> 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?
>

Max 2 days, I still have some hope 1 would be enough, but I expect some
followups too, so better plan for 2.



> And please try to involve others in the work, so knowledge is spread.
>
>
My plan is to make a bash provisioning script for Vagrant recipe so that
it's easier for everybody to step in.
But, as I said I'm focusing on the plugins part only, I've no intention to
work on the other small apps like the feed aggregator or the user map.



> 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.
>

Core django functionality only is not possible, what I'm doing right now is
to fork any django third party module that is unmaintained or that requires
to be updgraded, luckily they are not many.


> Happy to help if you make the branch you work on available on github so
> I can try to follow at least.
>

Sure, thanks for your offer, I'll push it in a few minutes, for now the
home page appears, which is already a good result :)

Cheers



> 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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