[Qgis-psc] Resource Sharing plugin in core?

[Håvard Tveite]

Hi again,

One advantage of having it as a separate repository is that
we can be more liberal when giving out commit rights to it.

It would be OK for me to get commit rights for the plugin,
but it would be scary to get commit rights for qgis/QGIS,
knowing how much trouble one can cause by making simple
mistakes... :-)

Håvard

On 17.02.2020 11:05, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
> 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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