Thanks Chris for your suggestions. I'll do my best to implement some of them. More opinions and help will be welcome. All the best.
Il 31/01/2018 16:18, C Hamilton ha scritto: > Here are my suggestions taking into account that this is highly > subjective and different users are going to have their favorite plugins. > Featured plugins should be bug free and have good > documentation/tutorials on how to use them. Featured plugins should fall > into one of several categories. > > 1. Semi-permanent plugins that are used by a broad user community. (I > wish there were a way to know what plugins people actually use - not > just download.) The ones on the current list that I would place in this > category are: > a. qgis2web > b. QuickMapServices - It may be that is becoming less important > because of the XYZ Tile Server > c. Quick Finder > d. Time Manager - Perhaps this should be in category 2 although I > use it. > > 2. Plugins that have a high value to a part of the user community and I > think they should be featured but not all the time. The ones currently > in the list that I would place in this category are: > a. LRS - Useful to a small set of users > b. Qgis2threejs - Really cool visualization, but once again I think > it is a smaller set of users > c. ScriptRunner - Useful for programmers. > d. Plugin Builder - Useful for beginning plugin developers. > > 3. Plugins that are new that have some unique capability or have been > evaluated to have a big impact. > > The following plugins that are on the Featured plugin list I would > suggest removing or perhaps occasionally rotating them through. I am not > suggesting that they are not important. I'm sure that those who > developed them use them, but I think they have a smaller user community > so perhaps others should be highlighted. These include: > a. Layer Board > b. QConsolidate - Note that its plugin home page link is broken. > c. lizmap > d. Item Browser > e. GeoCoding - I like Quick Finder better > > The following plugins could be candidates for occasional inclusion as > least on a rotating bases. > a. Copy Canvas to Clipboard - This is a small set of people but > useful if you want a snapshot of the canvas. > b. Data Plotly - QGIS 3 plugin so perhaps it should not be included > until QGIS 3 becomes more mainstream, but it has great potential. > c. Lat Lon Tools - One of my most used plugins, but I am kind of biased. > d. Profile tool - I have used this on a number of occasions, but it > needs better documentation > e. Split Features On Steroids - This is a newer plugin that I have > found to be quite useful. > f. QGIS Resource Sharing - Should at least be featured sometime. > g. pgRoutingLayer - Important for those doing map routing. > h. Shape Tools - Another one I use, but once again I am very biased. > i. Other analysis plugins, but I am not sure which ones should be > placed on this list. 'Hotspot Analysis' could be cool if it ever gets > out of the experimental stage. > > Quite frankly I am not sure how to judge candidates for inclusion > because I am not looking at all of them and my interests and needs are > going to be different from the next user, but it would be nice to > feature different plugins that are unique to a set of the user community > or different categories of plugins, why they are useful, and to have a > nice write up about them. > > Best wishes, > > Calvin > > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 4:28 AM, Paolo Cavallini <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi all, > thanks for this question. I confirm that the choice is subjective, done > by the many people included in the staff of plugin management. As > pointed out, this has been neglected in recent times. I'd welcome any > suggestion on plugins to include in or remove from the list. > One related issue is how to give more emphasis on user ratings: this > could be a useful guide for others, but has been underutilized, and not > prominently exposed. Ideas and contributions on this also welcomed. > All the best. > -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=IT&q=qgis,arcgis _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
