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On 16 October 2013 12:46, Richard Duivenvoorde <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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