[Qgis-psc] QGIS-Hub proposal

[Tim Sutton]

Can I suggest we roll in this functionality into the plugins.qgis.org site?

I'd be happy to spend a little of our kartoza community time on this...


Regards

Tim

On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 5:59 PM Marco Bernasocchi <marco at qgis.org> wrote:

> Hi Klas,
>
> wow, looks really nice, thanks a lot! I added this to the next PSC agenda
> (1.9.20)
>
> Cheers
>
> Marco
> On 06.08.20 13:35, Klas Karlsson wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> My name is Klas Karlsson and I dabble with QGIS in my spare time, and once
> in a while I get an idea...
>
> # Proposal to implement a "QGIS Hub" on the official qgis.org site.
>
> ## Background
>
> I was creating a lot of styles just for fun, and was thinking about
> creating a PR to the QGIS GitHub.
> However, a lot of the styles were really intricate and might apply to
> relatively few use cases.
> In stead of filling up the default styles with nice but really
> "un-expandable" styles, there should be
> an easier way.
>
> Sure, there's the resource sharing plugin, and it works great. But it is a
> lot of steps to go through
> for someone that is only interested in sharing a simple style or two.
> Enter the idea of a "style hub".
>
> On https://style-hub.github.io I created a demo of how it could look. I
> also created https://layout-hub.github.io
> and that made me realize that there may be a few of these simpler resource
> files that the community
> would like to share, but don't because of the complexity to do so.
>
> ## QGIS Hub
>
> So why not at central "Hub" for all kinds of small and easy to share
> resources?
>
> On https://github.com/style-hub/hub-server/ I started a project to create
> such a hub.
> During the development so far I've used local servers to test it, but to
> get some feed-back
> I also set up a site on free hosting at http://qgis-hub.rf.gd, which
> isn't great since it for instance lack
> TLS/SSL, which is required for some functions, but it should be enough to
> get some user reactions.
>
> The goal is to create the style-hub first, and then use that to "clone" it
> to a layout-hub too.
>
> I'm doing this because it's fun and educational, but if it gets approval
> it would probably look good at:
>
> __hub.qgis.org__
>
> ## Requirements
>
> The code is available at GitHub and basically the requirements are:
>
> * PHP web hosting
> * MySQL database (users and meta data)
> * TLS/SSL for https (required for some functions)
> * Storage space for resource files (write access) (1 Gb will probably
> store well over 1'000 resources)
>
> I'm willing to continue to work on the site, but I would prefer not to do
> so alone, since I don't
> have the time to drop everything if there's a problem (as mentioned in the
> beginning I'm doing this in my
> spare time).
> My skills at PHP and MySQL is also limited (this is a learning
> experience),
> so the code would probably benefit from some audit, and if the hub is to
> be included in the official site
> I guess it should be styled in the same way, which also would require some
> work.
>
> For now I will continue to work on the site at http://qgis-hub.rf.gd as
> long as I think it is still fun
> and I have time available.
>
> Best regards
>
> Klas Karlsson
>
> =========================================================
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>
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