[Qgis-user] Check Geometries: nice tool, but bad integration

[Tobias Wendorff]

Dear Régis,

thanks for your words.

I'm DevOps for myself, not in an open source project, but I know the
adversity and I also have a life after work (LoL, no, I don't).

Financially it is not possible for me to support developers of FOSS. All
I can do is report bugs, suggest improvements, and distribute the
product. I've helped a lot of people move from commercial GIS systems to
QGIS and PostGIS and I think I've done a good job. If my words sometimes
sound too hard, it is only the case that I talk about them honestly and
openly. I've rung the bell several times to say that I like the tool
very much - but I wouldn't even have the slightest starting point to
help the developer.

Maybe we should think about a concept, LibreOffice uses: Either a user
delivers a patch or pays for the bug fix or feature. Croundfunding is
unfortunately still too expensive, otherwise some hundred people could
get together and pay $5 each. I don't think the concept of paid bugfixes
is bad at all - it also opens up a completely new branch of industry.

Best Regards,
Tobias



Am 30.09.2019 um 14:41 schrieb Régis Haubourg:
> Hi Tobias,
> thanks for raising issues here. The state of the geometry checking tools
> indeed needs some work and rencetralisation of legacy tools.
> Still, I suggest you take a look to this nice presentation we had in
> latest FOSS4G
> https://media.ccc.de/v/bucharest-322-the-secret-life-of-open-source-developers
> 
> 
> I learnt quite of few things in it, especially about the GNU GPL licence
> terms we all agree with when using QGIS.
> 
> I think raising issues in QGIS butracker, and work to find ressources to
> make things change will be a faster strategy for you to solve your issue
> that pushin pressures on the shoulders of probably unpaid benevolent.
> 
> And please note QGIS is not run by a big company that forces its choices
> to you, but by users, which mean by the efforts of every contributor
> everywhere in our world. This is why it changes so fast. But if you
> don't try to tackle issues that blocking your workflows, please don't
> blame others for not doing it for you.
> 
> Regards,
> Régis
> 
> Le dim. 29 sept. 2019 à 23:56, Tobias Wendorff
> <tobias.wendorff at tu-dortmund.de <mailto:tobias.wendorff at tu-dortmund.de>>
> a écrit :
> 
>     Hi there,
> 
>     I like the "Check Geometries". It's damn slow, but it's damn powerful
>     and it really finds problems in geometries (other than GEOS often does).
> 
>     But what I don't like is the bad integration in QGIS3.
> 
>     1. The "run" button is hidden on the "last page", not on the same dialog
>     like "close". So I found myself pressing "close" a hundret of times.
> 
>     2. Also - unlike in all other plugins - all layers are activated for
>     checking, not only the currently selected one. I often have to
>     deactivate 20 layers first... Then I press "close", have to scream loud
>     and start all over again.
> 
>     3. Worst of all, the results aren't stored anywhere. A geometry is
>     written, but its attribute table doesn't show the results. When you
>     close the dialog, everything is gone. Since it's not part of
>     "procession", you cannot find the results in there :-(
> 
>     So, whoever wrote it: damn good work, but please add some usability.
> 
>     Best regards,
>     Tobias
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