[Qgis-psc] Resource Sharing plugin in core?

[Nyall Dawson]

On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 at 21:28, Håvard Tveite <havard.tveite at nmbu.no> wrote:
>
> 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... :-)

Agreed - and also important to note that doing development in
qgis/QGIS is MUCH MUCH slower and with a insanely vertical learning
curve. The rules for code integration in qgis/QGIS are very very
strict, the CI is extremely picky about code styling, spelling,
formatting, etc (all for good reason -- we SHOULD be extremely picky
about the code which lands in qgis/QGIS). There's a very large barrier
for entry for anyone to start contributing to qgis master code, which
would apply to the plugin as soon as it's moved into qgis/QGIS. It
would actually make development slower, put up more barriers for
entry, and will actively discourage community contributions...

Nyall

>
> 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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