Thank you for raising the discussion Richard, I agree, the plugin landing page should be mainly targeted at users. A short description + picture for the best plugins ever, see e.g.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/, https://extensions.gnome.org/ ... and have a link to a dev section somewhere. And I would also like to stress the requirement for other auth providers. If I remember correctly, the decision to stick to redmine was taken under the assumption that the mantra is a temporary workaround. Matthias On 11/09/2016 10:36 AM, Nathan Woodrow wrote: > +1 to move that to dev section. > > However on that note: how hard is it to connect other providers for > authentication? Google, Facebook, etc I know people like the OSGeoID > thing, but having other options isn't bad. > > - Nathan > > On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 7:24 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi, > > We (as osgeo SAC admins) receive a lot of requests for the osge-mantra > from QGIS users, just because they think you need that to use plugins. > > I think it is because plugins.qgis.org <http://plugins.qgis.org> > lands on a page in which it says: > "In order to access to some functionalities of this website you will > need to login with a valid OSGEO ID." > > I think it has something to do with the fact that we > plugins.qgis.org <http://plugins.qgis.org> > was first 'hub', a collection of some QGIS/django/issues related > web-apps. > But now plugins.qgis.org <http://plugins.qgis.org> is actually only > plugins (+ a user map and planet) > > I propose either to cleanup the django app, so it is ONLY plugins, and > maybe create another small app for all the rest apps (usermap, planet) > > OR to remove the landing page, and move that text to the dev part of the > website. The landing page could be a more generic page maybe, telling > that you install plugins via the plugin manager, and this app is only if > you want to upload plugins? > > Another option would be to remove the little login-man from the > frontpage. > > It is getting annoying to answer all the user requests for a mantra, > just because they want a plugin... > > Regards, > > Richard > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > <http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer> > Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > <http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
