On 16-10-13 12:29, Ing. Pierluigi De Rosa wrote: > Dear all, > > Since QGIS was at 1.8 version I used a plugin very useful for me but now > the same is to updated to the 2.0 version. > I write to the developer asking for un update for version 2.0 and > telling him I'm are available to the the necessary work to do that. > Unfortunately I didn’t receive any reply from him. > > What you suggest to do? > I can update the code but then I cannot distribuite the code as I'm not > the developer?
My opinion: I do not know which plugin you need, but I would be very carefull to pull somebodies plugin out of his/her hands. I think it is to the developer to decide what priorities he takes by doing his work. We cannot force somebody to update it, if he is busy with something else. (or just missing the email in which somebody asks for that) If the plugin is on github, I would start with forking the repo, and upgrading the plugin as needed and do a pull request. This way YOU have a working plugin :-) Then maybe ask via this list if the developer is around, or if somebody knows this developer personally, and try to contact him again (or via the person who knows him). Maybe offer a little gift? Some nice words? A beer somewhere on the world? Offer to do it (patches, pull requests)? If all fails, there are two options: - we can my you manager of the plugin (but as said, as a project I think we should be really carefull with this. Maybe even only if the plugin-owner has given permission for this) - you can rename the plugin and upload it with another name? From my own experience, I can tell several reasons to not upgrade immediatly: - I'm in the middle of some refactoring and are planning to do the upgrade and new functionality in one version - I just do not have time for this, at THIS moment (meaning: other things in life have prio now)... In short: please be gentle to a plugin dev. He invested his free time into the developing the initial version(s) of the plugin. Regards, Richard Duivenvoorde _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
