On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Paolo Cavallini <[email protected]> wrote: > Il 21/08/2010 10:06, Tim Sutton ha scritto: > >> Just a PSC perspecitive note on this, I think it will be useful when >> discussions are complete to simply summarise discussions and submit >> that summary as a proposal to the PSC for approval. In general the >> requirements (SVN, plugin specific access controls etc) are all doable >> but probably not easily on osgeo infrastructure due to the high admin >> load it will incurr. So an option would be to host the svn repo >> withing the QGIS.org VM. >> >> I was wondering as well if this isnt a good place to start our first >> steps in using GIT? > > Hi all. > Am I the only one to perceive the need for a plugin trac+svn (or git)? > If we decide we need it, it would be much better to have it in place before > the > hackfest, so we can start hacking around it in Wroklaw.
I completely agree that having an infrastructure for easy development and bug tracking for plugins would help the authors with deployment and cooperation. Still I see several issues that have to be resolved in order to have the repository working. Let's concentrate on the idea of having SVN repository for the plugins. The repository would automatically update its XML file with the list of available plugins. Some of the important questions: - what users should be granted write access to this SVN? - who would manage the permissions to the individual plugins? - should we require all plugins to be within this SVN repository or allow 'external' ones? - how to deal with official/contributed plugins? There were also thoughts about introducing an infrastructure that would enable to count number of downloads and user ratings - this would probably require development of a web application that would present this information. We should maybe have a look around how other projects deal with the infrastructure and security model for plugins - Firefox, KDE etc. Regards Martin _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
