[Qgis-psc] Resource Sharing plugin in core?

[Matthias Kuhn]

On 2/17/20 9:58 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Il 17/02/20 09:50, Tim Sutton ha scritto:
>> Hi
>>
>>> On 17 Feb 2020, at 08:33, Matthias Kuhn <matthias at opengis.ch
>>> <mailto:matthias at opengis.ch>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  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.
>>> +1
>>>
>>> There are also usability advantages of a C++ implementation of
>>> resource sharing will be that it can be much tighter integrated, for
>>> example allowing to download additional symbols directly from the
>>> symbol selector without closing modal windows and switching to a
>>> separate dialog where styles are managed.
>>>
>> Yeah this would be a big plus for me too - if the sharing platform is
>> really going to be useful, it should be right there at the point where
>> you need the resource. And with my dreamer hat on, we will also have a
>> ’share this symbol’ button one day that lets you directly share any
>> resource with a permissive ‘do what you like’ license to a central QGIS
>> style platform, something like the noun icon project.
> thanks all for the comments. The point is: how to make this happen? IMHO
> keeping it in the current position is not attracting attention to it.

To gain some traction, someone could write a blog post and we show it on 
the welcome screen.

Would be a nice test to check the reach of the welcome screen too by 
monitoring the download numbers and contributions in the repo.

Matthias