Thank you, Paolo, for the summary. It was great to be part of the meeting! On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 9:26 AM, Paolo Cavallini <cavall...@faunalia.it> wrote:
> Hi all, > meeting has just ended. I must say it was a very interesting and > productive discussion. We are really grateful for the developers from > GRASS, SAGA and OTB for their contributions to our discussion. > I recap briefly here what I believe are the most important outcomes: > * we'll keep SAGA and GRASS Processing providers > * we'll try to update SAGA provider to the next LTR when this will be > available > * we invite OTB team to add their work to QGIS core, granting them write > access if they wish > * for OTB provider, considering that OTB binaries are not part of the > installer on Windows, we suggest this approach: OTB provider checks > whether OTB is installed, if not it suggests the user to install it, if > the user does not the provider hides itself > * While we have granted an exception to the ‘processing providers should > not be in core’ for the short term, our longer term plan is to put in > place mechanisms to ‘side load’ the dependencies (GRASS, OTB, SAGA). > When this capability is implemented, we will mandate that all providers > will be provided as plugins and then fetch these plugins on demand if an > algorithm references them > * we will not accept new providers, unless some very strict and > exceptional conditions apply (TBD; e.g. new backend of high quality and > general usage) > * for future versions we will consider moving providers to the XML > approach where appropriate, as it appears more maintainable, even at the > expense of flexibility in interface tuning; GRASS is the next candidate, > noting that this might require some modifications in GRASS core > * as a first step in we ask anybody to test thoroughly the new SAGA > provider by Alex Bruy > https://github.com/alexbruy/processing-saga > also a check from SAGA, GRASS, and OTB devs would be important, to check > whether this approach is the preferred one from all sides. > Please add if I missed something. > Overall, I think we have now a brighter future for Processing, and as a > consequence for QGIS, SAGA, GRASS and OTB altogether. > * If you want to watch the complete discussion, please be patient; video > is being uploaded. > All the best, and thanks again. > -- > Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu > QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html > https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=IT&q=qgis,arcgis > _______________________________________________ > grass-dev mailing list > grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
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