First of all, thank you all for your feedback. It is clear that the problem is not (solely) the SAGA plugin, but rather a perspective on the sustainability of open-source projects, which, I imagine, Nyall has rightly raised.
To avoid any misunderstanding and in response to Greg’s comments, in this context I am simply a user who used to use SAGA very frequently some time ago; as the features of QGIS/ Processing have improved and expanded, I hardly use it anymore, except for rasterisation, which allows complete control over the rasterisation values when, for example, I have overlapping points, and SAGA allows you to choose whether to assign the minimum, average, maximum, sum, etc., to the raster cell – a function that GDAL does not have. However, I reiterate that I consider Nyall’s decision to be a ‘provocation’ (in a positive sense, let’s be clear) to draw attention to sustainability. Jurgen has stated the difficulty in keeping up with SAGA’s developments, which are often unannounced, and attempts at structured collaboration – correct me if I’m wrong – with SAGA’s maintainers have not yielded good results. So, returning to the specific case, I believe the solutions could be: 1) SAGA is no longer a third-party module provider, as it no longer develops or maintains any plugins; 2) specific voluntary contributions are found, either short-term or long-term tertium non datur! Regards s. Il giorno gio 21 mag 2026 alle ore 13:41 Stefano Campus <[email protected]> ha scritto: > If I’m not mistaken, over the years, the SAGA maintainers haven’t paid > much attention to integration with QGIS; proof of this is that they’ve > changed the structure of the modules, renamed them, and so on, without > making any announcement or contacting the QGIS maintainers in any way > > Il giorno gio 21 mag 2026 alle ore 11:53 < > [email protected]> ha scritto: > >> >> *Bas Couwenberg* sebastic at xs4all.nl >> <qgis-developer%40lists.osgeo.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BQGIS-Developer%5D%20SAGA%20GIS%20plugin%20maintenance&In-Reply-To=%3Ce4d5973f-3ab3-4993-8e73-8e3a8a6ec88f%40xs4all.nl%3E> >> *Thu May 21 03:40:36 PDT 2026* >> >> >> - Previous message (by thread): [QGIS-Developer] SAGA GIS plugin >> maintenance >> <https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2026-May/068253.html> >> - *Messages sorted by:* [ date ] >> >> <https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2026-May/date.html#68254> >> [ thread ] >> >> <https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2026-May/thread.html#68254> >> [ subject ] >> >> <https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2026-May/subject.html#68254> >> [ author ] >> >> <https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2026-May/author.html#68254> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> On 5/21/26 11:53 AM, Stefano Campus via QGIS-Developer wrote: >> >* Do you think it would be a good idea to propose to the Steering Group that >> *>* its maintenance be taken on directly by the QGIS.org Foundation and that >> a >> *>* certain sum (1000–2000 euros?) be set aside in the annual budget for its >> *>* maintenance? >> * >> No, I think it makes more sense for the SAGA developers to commit to >> maintaining the QGIS plugin which will likely motivate them to stabilize >> their interface. >> >> Kind Regards, >> >> Bas >> >> >>
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