Il 07/02/2018 11:18, Victor Olaya ha scritto: > I dont see the advantage in having providers in core.
I see the following: * tests (already available in our infrastructure) * translations * more exposure * documentation > And if there is an > advantage, it's clearly not in how easy it is going to be to maintain > the plugin. until now it has been maintained somehow; if more resources are needed, we can find a way > If the people responsible of a given backend (like OTB) are > going to maintain it (which makes sense), why putting it in core where > they don't have write access? why not granting them write access? > Better in a separate repo. Also, they can > release whenever there are changes, without having to wait for a new > release. That way, the plugin will always be in sync with new releases > of the backend app. this is certainly true; AFAICT OTB people has proposed a solution > If we put them in core...why putting only this big ones (which in some > cases require installing external apps manually by the user), and not > put other plugins that exist and contain Processing providers? I'd be in favour of adding anything important for users. Thanks for your thoughts. When in Madeira we can have a discussion about this. It would be good if all interested parties could meet, locally and remotely. All the best. -- 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