Re: [QGIS-Developer] Plugin Developers Who Don't Want to Add Capabilities - Go2NextFeature

2021-09-16 Thread Raymond Nijssen 
What about adding just 1 line to the plugin, for firing a signal that 
you can catch in another plugin/tool that will take the snapshot? They 
might agree on that, cause nobody will notice it.


Raymond


On 16-09-2021 09:32, Johannes Kröger wrote:

Hi Calvin,

Looking at the list of issues I do not see any behaviour from the 
maintainer that shows a necessity for a fork. And there is just one user 
who asked for a snapshop feature, in two separate issues, one not even 
with a title.


Have you tried making a full description of the new feature and how it 
will integrate nicely and why the feature fits the scope of the project, 
followed by a well tested pull request with the new feature?


There are some unanswered merge requests but no visible repeated 
attempts to get the maintainer's attention. I'd try that first.


Making snapshops of the canvas sounds like a feature that has little to 
do with iterating through features. Maybe you are best served with 
another tiny plugin that does just that?


Cheers, Hannes

Am 15.09.21 um 14:47 schrieb C Hamilton:
I am faced with somewhat of a delima. This QGIS plugin is used by some 
of our analysts.


https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/Go2NextFeature3/ 



Those analysts would like some additional features including automatic 
snapshoting of the canvas and saving it as an image for each feature. 
Something like this has been asked for by other users of the plugin 
over 2 years ago. See the issues.


https://gitlab.com/albertodeluca/go2nextfeature/-/analytics/issues_analytics 



In the comments of "Future of Plugin" the developers have made it 
clear that they want to keep the plugin simple. Probably because of 
this policy I see that someone else created a Go2NextFeaturePlus 
geared for OSM work and it is labeled as experimental.


I don't like replicating capability, but given that a plugin developer 
is unwilling to make any significant changes, how do you feel about 
another similar plugin be developed that has the additional capability 
that we need. I am not sure how to handle this situation. I don't 
think it would take much time to create a new plugin to do this with 
the expanded capabilities.


Thanks for your thoughts.

Calvin

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Re: [QGIS-Developer] Plugin Developers Who Don't Want to Add Capabilities - Go2NextFeature

2021-09-16 Thread Johannes Kröger 

Hi Calvin,

Looking at the list of issues I do not see any behaviour from the 
maintainer that shows a necessity for a fork. And there is just one user 
who asked for a snapshop feature, in two separate issues, one not even 
with a title.


Have you tried making a full description of the new feature and how it 
will integrate nicely and why the feature fits the scope of the project, 
followed by a well tested pull request with the new feature?


There are some unanswered merge requests but no visible repeated 
attempts to get the maintainer's attention. I'd try that first.


Making snapshops of the canvas sounds like a feature that has little to 
do with iterating through features. Maybe you are best served with 
another tiny plugin that does just that?


Cheers, Hannes

Am 15.09.21 um 14:47 schrieb C Hamilton:
I am faced with somewhat of a delima. This QGIS plugin is used by some 
of our analysts.


https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/Go2NextFeature3/ 



Those analysts would like some additional features including automatic 
snapshoting of the canvas and saving it as an image for each feature. 
Something like this has been asked for by other users of the plugin 
over 2 years ago. See the issues.


https://gitlab.com/albertodeluca/go2nextfeature/-/analytics/issues_analytics 



In the comments of "Future of Plugin" the developers have made it 
clear that they want to keep the plugin simple. Probably because of 
this policy I see that someone else created a Go2NextFeaturePlus 
geared for OSM work and it is labeled as experimental.


I don't like replicating capability, but given that a plugin developer 
is unwilling to make any significant changes, how do you feel about 
another similar plugin be developed that has the additional capability 
that we need. I am not sure how to handle this situation. I don't 
think it would take much time to create a new plugin to do this with 
the expanded capabilities.


Thanks for your thoughts.

Calvin

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Re: [QGIS-Developer] Plugin Developers Who Don't Want to Add Capabilities - Go2NextFeature

2021-09-15 Thread Paolo Cavallini 
Hi Calvin,
thanks for submtting this. I'm fully with you: duplicating work is
wasteful for devs and confusing for users, boring for maintainers so bad
for everybody. In my experience, insisting for merging works is
sometimes successful, and if so the advantages are quite evident. Please
let us know if you feel core team could help.
Cheers.

Il 15/09/21 14:47, C Hamilton ha scritto:
> I am faced with somewhat of a delima. This QGIS plugin is used by some
> of our analysts.
> 
> https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/Go2NextFeature3/
> 
> 
> Those analysts would like some additional features including automatic
> snapshoting of the canvas and saving it as an image for each feature.
> Something like this has been asked for by other users of the plugin
> over 2 years ago. See the issues.
> 
> https://gitlab.com/albertodeluca/go2nextfeature/-/analytics/issues_analytics
> 
> 
> In the comments of "Future of Plugin" the developers have made it clear
> that they want to keep the plugin simple. Probably because of this
> policy I see that someone else created a Go2NextFeaturePlus geared for
> OSM work and it is labeled as experimental.
> 
> I don't like replicating capability, but given that a plugin developer
> is unwilling to make any significant changes, how do you feel about
> another similar plugin be developed that has the additional capability
> that we need. I am not sure how to handle this situation. I don't think
> it would take much time to create a new plugin to do this with the
> expanded capabilities.
> 
> Thanks for your thoughts.
> 
> Calvin
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[QGIS-Developer] Plugin Developers Who Don't Want to Add Capabilities - Go2NextFeature

2021-09-15 Thread C Hamilton 
I am faced with somewhat of a delima. This QGIS plugin is used by some of
our analysts.

https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/Go2NextFeature3/

Those analysts would like some additional features including automatic
snapshoting of the canvas and saving it as an image for each feature.
Something like this has been asked for by other users of the plugin over 2
years ago. See the issues.

https://gitlab.com/albertodeluca/go2nextfeature/-/analytics/issues_analytics

In the comments of "Future of Plugin" the developers have made it clear
that they want to keep the plugin simple. Probably because of this policy I
see that someone else created a Go2NextFeaturePlus geared for OSM work and
it is labeled as experimental.

I don't like replicating capability, but given that a plugin developer is
unwilling to make any significant changes, how do you feel about another
similar plugin be developed that has the additional capability that we
need. I am not sure how to handle this situation. I don't think it would
take much time to create a new plugin to do this with the expanded
capabilities.

Thanks for your thoughts.

Calvin
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