[Qgis-psc] Resource Sharing plugin in core?

[Alessandro Pasotti]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 9:10 AM Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>
wrote:

> Hi ale,
>
> Il 17/02/20 09:08, Alessandro Pasotti ha scritto:
>
> > I am -1 to move it into core (https://github.com/QGIS/qgis).
> could you please expand on this?
>


Sure,

first thing is to clarify what we mean for "including a plugin in core",
with that I mean that the plugin is integrated in the same github
repository of QGIS C++ main code.

The inclusion of resource sharing plugin in core was already discussed a
few years ago and at that time I was in favor of it and other developers
were not, over the years I switched side too and I'm not in favor anymore,
to tell you the truth, I would probably remove ALL other Python plugins
from the main QGIS repository except for plugin manager.

The reason?

Because there is really no need to have them in the same repository and
because I see no reason why the release cycle of python plugin must follow
the same release cycle of QGIS itself (see the endless stream of bugs in DB
manager, wouldn't be easier if we could make DB manager a rolling release
that people can upgrade/downgrade like any other plugin?).

>From a core developer perspective, I'd like to see almost only C++ code in
the main repository and let the Python plugins be maintained by a broader
community, which doesn't mean that Python plugins must be abandoned or are
a less important than the rest, on the contrary, I'm very much in favor of
having a few selected plugins maintained and administered by the largest
possible QGIS community.


Cheers.



> Cheers.
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