[Qgis-psc] AGM: plugins vote

[Alessandro Pasotti]

Great summary Vincent!

I totally subscribe it.

Thank you.

On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 11:55 AM Vincent Picavet (ml)
<vincent.ml at oslandia.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have commented on the Github issue on the topic, but I wanted to stress one
> specific point here :
>
> - I do not think that this topic is appropriate for an AGM vote in its current
> state.
>
>
> I think there are implications on this issue which are currently not detailed
> enough to be able to take a decision taking enough parameters into account.
>
> To be clear, I even think the questions asked are not the right ones. In my
> opinions better questions would be more in the terms of :
> - Do QGIS.org want to distribute third-party software, and under what conditions ?
> - Who would take responsibility in case of problem ( legal issue, major security
> flaw ) ?
> - Do we want to re-develop a software deployment system ? What are the
> alternatives ?
> - How much work each decision would require and who would do it with what funding ?
>
> Legal implications are also not clear enough to take a decision.
>
> QGIS has evolved into a large opensource project and community, for the best. We
> deliver software to hundred of thousands of users, which is great.
> But it comes with a cost : more responsibility, less agility, strictness and not
> being able to fulfill everyone's desires...
>
> We also have to keep in mind that QGIS now serves as a model of opensource /
> libre software development. Other projects are looking at us, our organization,
> our choices, and are influenced by them.
> We have to take that into account, and consider our context, the ecosystem, the
> opensource movement, because we have an impact on it.
> Therefore, we have to be a good opensource citizen, continue to promote the
> global movement, and never compromise on core values and subjects.
>
> I will personnaly keep that in mind for all decisions made for and by the QGIS
> project.
>
> I have the impression that this topic put light into some fundamental
> divergences in the vision. If this is the case, we should focus on re-converging
> on the vision, rather than taking side-decisions implying core values shifts
> without having a debate on the global direction.
>
> Vincent
>
>
> On 09/04/2020 01:03, Tim Sutton wrote:
> > I added a proposed summary of all the drafts at the end of the thread in the
> > ticket Paolo.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >> On 8 Apr 2020, at 20:08, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com
> >> <mailto:nyall.dawson at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 at 03:42, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it
> >> <mailto:cavallini at faunalia.it>> wrote:
> >>
> >>> By allowing plugins to be platform
> >> specific we also open up the possibility to ship plugins which give
> >> access to specific tools like the touch bar, a hardware piece that is
> >> only available on mac.
> >>
> >> Can I throw some more text to put at the end of this? I'd like to see
> >> this become:
> >>
> >> "By allowing plugins to be platform
> >> specific we also open up the possibility to ship plugins which give
> >> access to specific tools like the touch bar, a hardware piece that is
> >> only available on mac, or which are designed to interface with a 3rd party
> >> software tool which is only available on limited platforms (e.g. a
> >> hypothetical plugin designed to utilise AutoCAD SDK functionality into
> >> QGIS)"
> >>
> >> Nyall
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks Alessandro for clarifying.
> >>> The discussion period has already started, I'd like to send the email
> >>> ASAP. Sorry to put pressure: any further comments? Matthias, are you OK
> >>> with the reply from Alessandro?
> >>> Cheers.
> >>>
> >>> Il 08/04/20 18:01, Alessandro Pasotti ha scritto:
> >>>> The no-binary policy in the official repository has been enforced and
> >>>> listed since day 1 , see https://plugins.qgis.org/publish/
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm not sure if the other rule about cross-platform has been written
> >>>> down somewhere, I've always taken that one for granted.
> >>>>
> >>>> I see no problems if a plug-in does its post-installation downloads though.
> >>>
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