[Qgis-psc] Resource Sharing plugin in core?

[Håvard Tveite]

Hi,

Moving the Resource Sharing plugin from
https://github.com/akbargumbira/qgis_resources_sharing to
github.com/qgis/ResourceSharing (or whatever) is encouraged
by Akbar - he has said that his interests have shifted and
that he does not have much time for the plugin
([QGIS-Developer] on 27.03.2018, 00:07 and an email to
Alessandro, Paolo and me 16.02.2020, 12:39).

Apart from that, an advantage of moving the plugin (as a
first step) is to give it a more "offical" QGIS stamp
while we wait for it to be included in core.

Håvard

On 17.02.2020 10:09, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
> 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
> 
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