Thank you Richard! > Note about that the original repo is gone... I'm not sure if Google > Streetview actually is OK with this kind of plugins, maybe he was afraid of > legal stuff? Knowing Google, I don’t rule it out completely, but as the plugin doesn’t scrape any data and just links to the public Street View page in the browser, it seems unlikely to me.
Anyway, I will try to contact the original owner. all the best Dieter > On 02.02.2025, at 11:58, Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmaili...@duif.net> wrote: > > Hi Dieter, > > The proper way would be to ask the original owner of the plugin to take over > ownership. > (as admins we also have an email address for ever owner) > > I'll sent you the mail addres in a separate mail (and put him in bcc for this > mail). > > Please contact the owner, and let him sent an email to this list telling it > is ok to take ownership. > > Then we can keep the same (good :-) ) name and you can take over ownership > and upload new plugins. > > (In case all fails, as in mail bounces or really not able to contact we can > always move ownership) > > Note about that the original repo is gone... I'm not sure if Google > Streetview actually is OK with this kind of plugins, maybe he was afraid of > legal stuff? > > Regards, > > Richard Duivenvoorde > > On 02-02-2025 00:13, Dieter Komendera via QGIS-Developer wrote: >> Hello everybody, >> I hope this is the correct place to ask for advice. >> The StreetView plugin (https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/StreetView/) is one >> I regularly use. However, all the links from the plugin details (Code >> repository, Tracker, Plugin home page) are dead. >> As I’m testing the macOS/arm64 Qt6 builds >> (https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/60039#issuecomment-2567661209) I adapted >> the plugin to be compatible with it Qt6 and am now looking if others are >> interested. As the original code repo seems to be gone, pushed my changes >> here: https://codeberg.org/kommen/QGIS-Streetview >> How does the QGIS community deal with such apparently orphaned plugins? >> Would it be acceptable if I create a new plugin entry on plugins.qgis.org >> <http://plugins.qgis.org/> with a slightly different name where I upload my >> Qt6 compatible version? >> Thank you all in advance >> Dieter >> _______________________________________________ >> QGIS-Developer mailing list >> QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org >> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
