On 8 November 2016 at 11:24, Nyall Dawson <nyall.daw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Discussion is currently underway concerning the future of a number of > the plugins which come preinstalled with QGIS. > > This concerns the plugins: > > - coordinate capture > - evis > - geometry_checker > - georeferencer > - heatmap > - interpolation > - offline editing > - oracle raster > - raster terrain analysis > - road graph > - spatial query > - topology checker > > If you're an active user of any of these plugins, your feedback would > be greatly appreciated. You can join the discussion over at: > > https://github.com/qgis/qgis3.0_api/issues/67
My original email didn't result in much feedback at all from users. I've been thinking further about this and I'm now wondering if we should take a more aggressive stand with these plugins leading into 3.0. What I'd like to do now is put two of these plugins on "notice". Specifically evis and oracle raster. No-one seems interested in actively maintaining or improving them anymore. The only changes they've seen in recent years are changes required to keep them compiling. Oracle raster hasn't seen a bug fix since 2010 and no enhancements since it was introduced in 2009, and evis last had a specific bug fix in 2011 and last had a performance enhancement in 2009. I think it's safe to say these plugins have been abandoned by their original authors. Given this, I think we should remove them from 3.0. First we could put out a general notice saying they will be removed if no-one steps forward to maintain (or sponsor) them. And failing a positive result from that remove them from 3.0. Nyall > > Note that a number of preinstalled plugins have already been removed > in 3.0 - specifically: > > - geometry snapper: was generalised to work with all layer types and > moved to a processing algorithm > - zonal statistics: was moved to a processing algorithm > - dxf2shp converter: was removed from QGIS - this conversion is better > handled outside of QGIS, eg by using OGR tools directly. > > Nyall _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer