[Qgis-developer] Fwd: Q-Rap plugin

2013-09-20 Thread Magdaleen Ballot
Hi,

I am currently th only active developer on Q-Rap, a Radio Planning plugin for 
QGis (source code at http://sourceforge.net/projects/qrap/). I recently updated 
it to work with Qgis version 2 (the upgrade on the Ubuntu repositories catch me 
a bit surprised as the Web-site still only talks about version 1.80). 

None the less, my main problem is that I am having trouble to have Q-Rap 
stick: 
It loads successfully, however when I close Q-Gis down and open it up again the 
tool bar is not there.BRQ-Rap is still selected, but it would seem like the 
constructor and initGui is not run again when I open up QGis. so now I have to 
un select the Q-Rap plugin and selects it again ... and then it loads.
I had another look at the plugin-template and some other plugin implementations 
in the source code, but I BRreally don't get it. Q-Rap creates its own new 
ToolBar on the QGis-interface.
(I had this problem in 1.8 as well ... in version 1.7 it worked fine)

Is this a bug in QGis or am I blind to what I am doing wrong?

On another topic;
On the Q-Rap mailing list I got the following message for Giovanni:

 http://www.qgis.org/api/INSTALL.html ( http://www.qgis.org/api/INSTALL.html 
)
 ( http://www.qgis.org/api/INSTALL.html ) I doubt anyway that you will be able 
 to make qrap works with the
 latest QGIS source code as it does not seem to have been updated recently.

 QGIS C++ plugins should be added upstream and maintained updated
 there, otherwise they are going the become quickly obsolete and of
 course stop to work

 cheers -- Giovanni --

I also got a similar suggestion from Paolo Cavallini of the LinkedIn QuantumGIS 
group that I should be doing the same. The fact of the matter is that I would 
really like to do just that.

How does one go about it? Is there any-one that can help me with this? As I am 
currently the only active developer and should actually be spending my time on 
research and teaching.
(I have not yet try to compile it under windows.)

Kind Regards
Magdaleen Ballot.

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Re: [Qgis-developer] Fwd: Q-Rap plugin

2013-09-20 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi


On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Magdaleen Ballot 
magdaleen.bal...@up.ac.za wrote:

 Hi,

 I am currently th only active developer on Q-Rap, a Radio Planning plugin
 for QGis (source code at http://sourceforge.net/projects/qrap/). I
 recently updated it to work with Qgis version 2 (the upgrade on the Ubuntu
 repositories catch me a bit surprised as the Web-site still only talks
 about version 1.80).


We are announcing the release of 2.0 shortly - first we have been pushing
packages out to the repositories.


 None the less, my main problem is that I am having trouble to have Q-Rap
 stick:
 It loads successfully, however when I close Q-Gis down and open it up
 again the tool bar is not there.BRQ-Rap is still selected, but it would
 seem like the constructor and initGui is not run again when I open up QGis.
 so now I have to un select the Q-Rap plugin and selects it again ... and
 then it loads.
 I had another look at the plugin-template and some other plugin
 implementations in the source code, but I BRreally don't get it. Q-Rap
 creates its own new ToolBar on the QGis-interface.
 (I had this problem in 1.8 as well ... in version 1.7 it worked fine)

 Is this a bug in QGis or am I blind to what I am doing wrong?


Someone would need to build it and check it in order to be able to tell you
that.


 On another topic;
 On the Q-Rap mailing list I got the following message for Giovanni:

  
 http://www.qgis.org/api/INSTALL.htmlhttp://www.qgis.org/api/INSTALL.html%3E%3E
  http://www.qgis.org/api/INSTALL.html%3E%3E I doubt anyway that you
 will be able to make qrap works with the
  latest QGIS source code as it does not seem to have been updated
 recently.

  QGIS C++ plugins should be added upstream and maintained updated
  there, otherwise they are going the become quickly obsolete and of
  course stop to work
 
  cheers -- Giovanni --

 I also got a similar suggestion from Paolo Cavallini of the LinkedIn
 QuantumGIS group that I should be doing the same. The fact of the matter is
 that I would really like to do just that.


 How does one go about it? Is there any-one that can help me with this? As
 I am currently the only active developer and should actually be spending my
 time on research and teaching.
 (I have not yet try to compile it under windows.)


Great that you plan to update your plugin to 2.0. I don't think the QRAP
plugin is a good candidate for inclusion of the QGIS upstream project
directly as its scope is limited to a very niche group of users. Also
anything going into core should have a dedicated maintainer, so it should
not be seen as a vehicle to offload the maintainance to other developers.
It would be better to make an appeal here on the list (and perhaps the
users list) for other developers to join you on the project.

In terms of hosting, we can certainly look at hosting QGIS in the github
QGIS repository (or you could upload it to your own repo and make it public
for others to fork).


Regards

Tim



 Kind Regards
 Magdaleen Ballot.


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Re: [Qgis-developer] Fwd: Q-Rap plugin

2013-09-20 Thread Magdaleen Ballot
Thank you.
 
Q-Rap seems to work now with QGis version 2
 
And the web-site is updated ;-)

 Tim Sutton li...@linfiniti.com 2013/09/20 12:41 PM 
Hi

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Magdaleen Ballot magdaleen.bal...@up.ac.za 
wrote:


Hi,

I am currently th only active developer on Q-Rap, a Radio Planning plugin for 
QGis (source code at http://sourceforge.net/projects/qrap/). I recently updated 
it to work with Qgis version 2 (the upgrade on the Ubuntu repositories catch me 
a bit surprised as the Web-site still only talks about version 1.80). 



We are announcing the release of 2.0 shortly - first we have been pushing 
packages out to the repositories.


None the less, my main problem is that I am having trouble to have Q-Rap 
stick: 
It loads successfully, however when I close Q-Gis down and open it up again the 
tool bar is not there.BRQ-Rap is still selected, but it would seem like the 
constructor and initGui is not run again when I open up QGis. so now I have to 
un select the Q-Rap plugin and selects it again ... and then it loads.
I had another look at the plugin-template and some other plugin implementations 
in the source code, but I BRreally don't get it. Q-Rap creates its own new 
ToolBar on the QGis-interface.
(I had this problem in 1.8 as well ... in version 1.7 it worked fine)

Is this a bug in QGis or am I blind to what I am doing wrong?



Someone would need to build it and check it in order to be able to tell you 
that.


On another topic;
On the Q-Rap mailing list I got the following message for Giovanni:

 http://www.qgis.org/api/INSTALL.html
 ( http://www.qgis.org/api/INSTALL.html%3E%3E ) I doubt anyway that you will 
 be able to make qrap works with the
 latest QGIS source code as it does not seem to have been updated recently.

 QGIS C++ plugins should be added upstream and maintained updated
 there, otherwise they are going the become quickly obsolete and of
 course stop to work

 cheers -- Giovanni --

I also got a similar suggestion from Paolo Cavallini of the LinkedIn QuantumGIS 
group that I should be doing the same. The fact of the matter is that I would 
really like to do just that.



How does one go about it? Is there any-one that can help me with this? As I am 
currently the only active developer and should actually be spending my time on 
research and teaching.
(I have not yet try to compile it under windows.)



Great that you plan to update your plugin to 2.0. I don't think the QRAP plugin 
is a good candidate for inclusion of the QGIS upstream project directly as its 
scope is limited to a very niche group of users. Also anything going into core 
should have a dedicated maintainer, so it should not be seen as a vehicle to 
offload the maintainance to other developers. It would be better to make an 
appeal here on the list (and perhaps the users list) for other developers to 
join you on the project.

In terms of hosting, we can certainly look at hosting QGIS in the github QGIS 
repository (or you could upload it to your own repo and make it public for 
others to fork).


Regards

Tim



Kind Regards
Magdaleen Ballot.



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