There are two other plugins: Topology Checker and Geometry Checker. IMHO their functionality should be merged and moved to analysis library.
2016-12-07 0:00 GMT+02:00 Nyall Dawson <[email protected]>: > On 8 November 2016 at 11:24, Nyall Dawson <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Discussion is currently underway concerning the future of a number of >> the plugins which come preinstalled with QGIS. >> >> This concerns the plugins: >> >> - coordinate capture >> - evis >> - geometry_checker >> - georeferencer >> - heatmap >> - interpolation >> - offline editing >> - oracle raster >> - raster terrain analysis >> - road graph >> - spatial query >> - topology checker >> >> If you're an active user of any of these plugins, your feedback would >> be greatly appreciated. You can join the discussion over at: >> >> https://github.com/qgis/qgis3.0_api/issues/67 > > My original email didn't result in much feedback at all from users. > I've been thinking further about this and I'm now wondering if we > should take a more aggressive stand with these plugins leading into > 3.0. > > What I'd like to do now is put two of these plugins on "notice". > Specifically evis and oracle raster. No-one seems interested in > actively maintaining or improving them anymore. The only changes > they've seen in recent years are changes required to keep them > compiling. Oracle raster hasn't seen a bug fix since 2010 and no > enhancements since it was introduced in 2009, and evis last had a > specific bug fix in 2011 and last had a performance enhancement in > 2009. I think it's safe to say these plugins have been abandoned by > their original authors. > > Given this, I think we should remove them from 3.0. First we could put > out a general notice saying they will be removed if no-one steps > forward to maintain (or sponsor) them. And failing a positive result > from that remove them from 3.0. > > Nyall > > > >> >> Note that a number of preinstalled plugins have already been removed >> in 3.0 - specifically: >> >> - geometry snapper: was generalised to work with all layer types and >> moved to a processing algorithm >> - zonal statistics: was moved to a processing algorithm >> - dxf2shp converter: was removed from QGIS - this conversion is better >> handled outside of QGIS, eg by using OGR tools directly. >> >> Nyall > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- Alexander Bruy _______________________________________________ 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
