Re: [Qgis-developer] Duplicate plugins: proposal

[Paolo Cavallini]

Il 08/06/2016 20:59, Niccolò Marchi ha scritto:
> (unfortunately) No suggestions for improvement except for setting that
> sentence as first and highlighting it as much as possible :)
> 
>  
> 
> The additional page was absolutely not meant to be on your shoulders but
> up to each developer with valid access, as a sort of “blackboard for
> notes”. When someone is testing more plugins dealing with a specific
> topic and finds similar functionalities, he can just add his notes as a
> reminder (open to the public). Pretty “informal”, let’s say, but useful
> to cluster plugins according to the effort of everyone who wants to
> contribute, instead of basing everything on your exclusive knowledge of
> each plugin.

In my experience, these pages are nice to start with, but soon they
become full of cruft and difficult to maintain. Even worse, since they
may contain useful info, nobody is really willing to rase them, so we
are left with a number of obsolete info around. IMHO this will only work
if there is someone willing to maintain it.
All the best, and thanks.

-- 
Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
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[Qgis-developer] Duplicate plugins: proposal

[Niccolò Marchi]

Hi all,
could it be an idea to add somewhere on the “about plugins“ page:

1.   An advice to “check for improvements before creating new and get in 
contact with the author”,

2.   And/or an additional page (read-only for users) dealing with “proposed 
merges” where , the qgis developers who are testing more plugins similar to 
each other, can resume which features can be collected and from where.

Topic


-  Plugin 1


-  Feature 1

-  Feature 2


-  Plugin 2


-  Feature 1

-  Feature 2


In the latter case, after a while, it could be then useful to send a general 
email to the plugin devs to get in contact with each other according to the 
“clustered scheme” that dinamically will be created. Plugin developers will 
still be free to keep their own plugin but, at least, it can stimulate the more 
collaborative ones. A sort of coordination proposal about what the project 
“needs”.
In the worst  case, it may work as a general framework for future funded (?) 
projects.

All the best,

Nic


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