[Qgis-psc] Resource Sharing plugin in core?

[Alessandro Pasotti]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 11:40 AM Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> What about if we ship QGIS ‘bare bones’ and on first run ask the user if
> they would like to install our selection of highly recommended plugins
> (which are basically what are in core or things like resource sharing)?
> That way we could onramp people into using those whilst still keeping them
> separate? Maybe in the plugin website we could just tag ‘endorsed’ plugins
> to defined which get installed in this process?
>
> Just a thought anyway….
>


That's more or less what I meant with a "meta" plugin with dependencies.

Cheers



>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> On 19 Feb 2020, at 08:01, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Perfect!
>
> Thank you.
>
> @Paolo
>
> To solve the problem of a "standard" set of plugins that QGIS.org
> recommends, we could use a meta plugin that is shipped by default and has
> the recommended plugins as dependencies, see: plugin_dependencies
> https://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/pyqgis_developer_cookbook/plugins/plugins.html#plugin-metadata
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 11:02 PM Håvard Tveite <havard.tveite at nmbu.no>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 18.02.2020 20:13, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
>> > Hi Håvard
>> >
>> >   From my side, no big objections but also no big plus that I can see.
>> >
>> > The "appearing official" would mostly be something for developers, and I
>> > don't think that's the main target audience.
>> >
>> > Suggestion:
>> >
>> > - create a new organisation QGIS-Contribution, fork the repository
>> > there, ask Akbar for permissions.
>>
>> Done.
>>
>> 1) Organisation: https://github.com/QGIS-Contribution
>>
>> 2) The repository has been imported / copied:
>> https://github.com/QGIS-Contribution/Resource_Sharing.
>>
>> 3) Akbar and Alessandro have been invited as owners.
>>
>> I have used the QGIS logo and qgis.org association - I
>> assume that is OK.
>>
>> Please let me know who else to include in this
>> "organisation". It would be nice to have some of the PSC
>> members on board.
>>
>> > - roll the drums where it's visible for end users - blog post, twitter,
>> > mailing lists, news panel ...
>>
>> Not today...
>>
>> ToDo: Update the metadata on
>> https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/qgis_resource_sharing/
>>
>> Håvard
>>
>> > Matthisa
>> >
>> >
>> > On 2/18/20 5:10 PM, Håvard Tveite wrote:
>> >> On 18.02.2020 16:40, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
>> >> ...
>> >>> I think our best bet is leaving the plugin where it is and advertise
>> it
>> >>> broadly to make it known.
>> >> I still don't understand why it would be a problem to just move
>> >> the plugin repository under to github.org/qgis.
>> >>
>> >> Up sides:
>> >> * Akbar would like to "get rid of it", and this would help him
>> >>      achieve that
>> >> * The QGIS organisation would get some more control over the
>> >>      administration of this plugin. Everyone seems to agree that
>> >>      resource sharing is important, so some more control would
>> >>      be OK.
>> >> * The plugin would appear more "official".
>> >> * Simple to do - just copy the Akbars repository and give it a
>> >>      sensible name
>> >>
>> >> Down sides:
>> >> * None provided
>> >>
>> >> Håvard
>> >>
>> >
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