[Qgis-psc] Resource Sharing plugin in core?

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hi,

Please note that my previous statement was written assuming that it 
should be in the qgis/QGIS repository (like processing).

I don't expect that moving it to a new repository under the QGIS 
organisation will help a lot (but it also won't hurt).

If it's mostly about a place for this plugin to live, how about creating 
a new `QGIS-Contribution` organisation where important, community 
managed plugins are stored and developed?

Matthias


On 2/17/20 10:32 AM, Håvard Tveite wrote:
> 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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