[Qgis-psc] Resource Sharing plugin in core?

Wed Feb 19 05:13:51 PST 2020

Hi

> On 19 Feb 2020, at 10:41, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 11:40 AM Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com <mailto:tim at kartoza.com>> wrote:
> Hi
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> 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?
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> Just a thought anyway….
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> That's more or less what I meant with a "meta" plugin with dependencies.

Ah great - I had missed your post in the thread when I wrote it. 

Regards

Tim

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> Cheers
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> Regards
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> Tim
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>> On 19 Feb 2020, at 08:01, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com <mailto:apasotti at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> Perfect! 
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>> Thank you.
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>> @Paolo
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>> To solve the problem of a "standard" set of plugins that QGIS.org <http://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 <https://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/pyqgis_developer_cookbook/plugins/plugins.html#plugin-metadata>
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>> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 11:02 PM Håvard Tveite <havard.tveite at nmbu.no <mailto:havard.tveite at nmbu.no>> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> Done.
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>> 1) Organisation: https://github.com/QGIS-Contribution <https://github.com/QGIS-Contribution>
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>> 2) The repository has been imported / copied:
>> https://github.com/QGIS-Contribution/Resource_Sharing <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 <http://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...
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>> ToDo: Update the metadata on
>> https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/qgis_resource_sharing/ <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 <http://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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