[Qgis-psc] QGIS Plugin website application maintenance

[Alessandro Pasotti]

@Richard:

Here is the new branch:
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Django/tree/modernize

Some update work is also happening on the dependencies, that are now
(temporarily) listed in
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Django/blob/modernize/qgis-app/REQUIREMENTS_plugins.txt

Cheers

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?
> 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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