Re: [QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-psc] QGIS budget 2023 RFC

2022-12-05 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml) via QGIS-Developer
o use this money. Vincent Andreas On Thu, 24 Nov 2022 at 15:05, Vincent Picavet (ml) via QGIS-Developer mailto:qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org>> wrote: Hello, Thanks for sharing the budget with the community. A few questions / remarks : - in most countries, we can see a gen

Re: [QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-psc] QGIS budget 2023 RFC

2022-11-24 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml) via QGIS-Developer
Hello, Thanks for sharing the budget with the community. A few questions / remarks : - in most countries, we can see a general inflation, having consequences on every kind of costs ( hosting, salaries…). Did you take this context into account when preparing the budget, especially when basing p

Re: [QGIS-Developer] ECW flags

2021-01-23 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hi Walter, Be careful with ECW SDK licence, which requires an OEM licence for any use in a Server software component. See for example : https://community.hexagongeospatial.com/t5/APOLLO-ECW-Q-A/License-for-reading-or-writing-ECW-in-third-party-software/ta-p/34074# This may have changed since 201

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Plugin licensing requirements

2021-01-07 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hi, On 07/01/2021 10:43, Nyall Dawson wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 at 19:13, Topi Tjukanov wrote: [..] >> So if this really is a requirement, should this be enforced somehow and >> checked when plugins are accepted to the official repository? > > Agreed, but keep in mind that it's a little tricky

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Server manual

2020-04-21 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hi all, On 21/04/2020 18:03, Paolo Cavallini wrote: > > > Il 21/04/20 17:41, Gerald Kogler ha scritto: >> © 2020 Oslandia. >> >> Maybe I should ask them to donate this post to QGIS Documentation? Or >> better to make a short resume and link to their post? > > I think the first option is preferable

Re: [QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-psc] Position on Qt wrt The QT Company announcements

2020-04-10 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hi, On 09/04/2020 22:39, Even Rouault wrote: [..] > But whatever the outcome of the apparently cool discussions within the board > of > the KDE Free Qt foundation between the KDE e.v and QT Company > representatives, I > don't think a statement of support from QGIS.org to the open source side of

[QGIS-Developer] Position on Qt wrt The QT Company announcements

2020-04-09 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hi all, PSC, Olaf Schmidt-Wishhöfer from KDE project has made a statement yesterday about a really concerning situation regarding the OpenSource state of Qt. https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2020q2/006098.html TL;DR : using the argument of COVID-19 crisis, The Qt Company wants to res

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Pointcloud install for Travis ?

2019-11-29 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hello, On 28/11/2019 14:23, Sandro Santilli wrote: > On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 01:54:58PM +0100, Sandro Santilli wrote: [..] > > A docker image with pointcloud would be oslandia/pggis which > is sourced in Vincent's github space: > https://github.com/vpicavet/docker-pggis > That one is more general

Re: [QGIS-Developer] On github, gitlab, and imperialist nations screwing us all over...

2019-08-01 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hi Nyall, all, On 01/08/2019 06:26, Nyall Dawson wrote: > Well, I've got to say upfront that we WERE warned about the dangers of > this happening by members of our community, and now the worst IS > happening and Github has started blocking access to projects from > certain regions. > > See https:

Re: [QGIS-Developer] FOSS4G CFP proposals around QGIS

2019-04-15 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
your 3D with Postgis and QGIS > workshop. Would it still make sense to submit two proposals? > > Greetings, > Andreas > > On 2019-04-15 12:22, Vincent Picavet (ml) wrote: > >> Hello Andreas, >> >> On 15/04/2019 12:17, Andreas Neumann wrote: >>> Today i

Re: [QGIS-Developer] FOSS4G CFP proposals around QGIS

2019-04-15 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hello, On 15/04/2019 13:55, Saber Razmjooei wrote: > @Vincent Picavet  could you let us > know if your workshop is about QGIS 3d, so we can submit another > proposal for mesh layer? No mesh layer in our proposed workshop. We only deal with 3D objects supported

Re: [QGIS-Developer] FOSS4G CFP proposals around QGIS

2019-04-15 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hello Andreas, On 15/04/2019 12:17, Andreas Neumann wrote: > Today is the last day submitting workshop and presentation proposals. > > I wonder who/what was already submitted, so I could potentially help to > fill in gaps? > > I could submit something around "tips&tricks with layouts/atlas/repor

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Anyone have ci setup for a QGIS plugin on GitLab?

2018-10-24 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hello Nyall, On 21/10/2018 11:34, Nyall Dawson wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone's aware of any QGIS plugins which are hosted > on gitlab which have a CI workflow setup. > > There's quite a number of plugins which have this on github/Travis > infrastructure (using the available QGIS docker contain

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Last call for switching to github issue tracker

2018-01-18 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hello, A bit late to the party, and I think for such an important matter it is good to wait a bit to hear more voices. I have mixed feelings about switching to a new issue manager without the history for QGIS3, and will not argue here for a specific roadmap. But I think the GitHub vs GitLab deb

Re: [QGIS-Developer] QGIS 3D: looking below the terrain model

2017-12-15 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hello, On 14/12/2017 08:02, Andreas Neumann wrote: > Hi Nyall, > > nice that we agree on both ;-) > > I will start collecting a wish-list on 3D and we can do a crowd funding > to address selected issues. Or we could do another QGIS grant on 3D > improvements. I would rather spend QGIS.ORG money

Re: [QGIS-Developer] QgsServer and 3d tiles

2017-11-13 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
as far as we are concerned. Regards, Vincent > > giovanni > > Il 9 nov 2017 16:29, "Vincent Picavet (ml)" <mailto:vincent...@oslandia.com>> ha scritto: > > Hello, > > On 03/11/2017 21:04, G. Allegri wrote: > > What if we had a

Re: [QGIS-Developer] QgsServer and 3d tiles

2017-11-13 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
as far as we are concerned. Regards, Vincent > > giovanni > > Il 9 nov 2017 16:29, "Vincent Picavet (ml)" <mailto:vincent...@oslandia.com>> ha scritto: > > Hello, > > On 03/11/2017 21:04, G. Allegri wrote: > > What if we had a

Re: [QGIS-Developer] QgsServer and 3d tiles

2017-11-09 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hello, On 03/11/2017 21:04, G. Allegri wrote: > What if we had a QgsServer service dedicates to serving 3d tiles for > Cesium or iTowns? > Is anybody working on this? At Oslandia, we work on 3D topics a lot, and 3d tiles in particular. We are implementing 3D Tiles support in iTowns, and several c

Re: [QGIS-Developer] QGIS Meeting #20 : 21-25 February 2018, Madeira

2017-11-01 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hello, Thanks for organizing this community meeting ! I would like to stress a few points. First, would it be possible to publish the details of the program as soon as possible ? 21th to 25th of February means 5 full days. It is not possible for most developers to attend this whole period. In or

Re: [Qgis-developer] Plans for next QGIS releases

2017-02-21 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hi Paolo, Please excuse me if I missed something, but I am quite surprised, not by the decisions themselves, but the process of these decisions. I have seen no call for meeting, no message to the list to gather advices, no mention to voting members neither of this IRC meeting happening. The topic

Re: [Qgis-developer] Discussion on the QGIS grant proposals

2016-09-23 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
On 22/09/2016 12:15, Paolo Cavallini wrote: [..] > > One other important point: the reason I originally proposed the grant > programme was to recognize the huge volunteer work several people are > donating to the project, and to help keeping their motivation high. > > My suggestion is therefore t

Re: [Qgis-developer] standard way for custom plugin python dependencies

2016-09-22 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hi, On 22/09/2016 14:43, Alessandro Pasotti wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Akbar Gumbira > wrote: [..] > @Jachym: AFAIK, most plugins now just ship the needed libraries > along with it or ask the users to install them. There are some > librar

Re: [Qgis-developer] Discussion on the QGIS grant proposals

2016-09-22 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hello, Thanks Andreas for raising this topic and clearing up facts and giving your position. I agree 100% with what you stated, and I do think this is something which should be emphasized much more, if not even constrained. Some more notes below. On 22/09/2016 08:14, Neumann, Andreas wrote: > [.

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS 3 plugins - require implementation as processing algs?

2016-09-11 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hello, On 12/09/2016 06:51, Victor Olaya wrote: > +1 from me :-) (no surprise...) +1 from me here, this is something we push forward as soon as we have the opportunity. > I will be happy to help on this, helping developers when adapting > their plugins. I can even make a short list in advance, wi

Re: [Qgis-developer] issue move to gh stalled

2016-08-29 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hello, Just a note to say that SAC is currently testing an OSGeo GitLab instance. It is on a temporary server, but may be used freely and can be used for testing and migration purpose. What is currently lacking is not setup time, but instead : * a decision from OSGeo's community on what we do wan

Re: [Qgis-developer] Moving towards QGIS3?

2016-08-23 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hi, Thanks Paolo for raising this. I do think we should : - set a definite release objective for 3.0 ( date / content) - minimize the risk of not reaching this goal On 23/08/2016 16:34, Paolo Cavallini wrote: > Hi all, > reading the list at: > https://github.com/qgis/qgis3.0_api/issues > it seem

Re: [Qgis-developer] Report 5 - QGIS Symbology Sharing Tools

2016-06-27 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hello, On 27/06/2016 12:41, Matthias Kuhn wrote: > On 06/27/2016 11:32 AM, Akbar Gumbira wrote: >> Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately raw URL is only provided for a >> single file, not a directory. > > Couldn't all the files be downloaded individually? > This will result in a couple of addit

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS compiling with Qt5 and Python3 on Debian

2016-05-26 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hello, On 26/05/2016 19:31, Paolo Cavallini wrote: > Hi all, > I was finally able to compile, install, and run (thanks Matthias!) the > above on a clean virtual machine. I've added the list of necessary > packages to the INSTALL doc in master. Others please try and report. > In case someone would

Re: [Qgis-developer] Plugin licence

2016-05-25 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hi, On 25/05/2016 12:39, Even Rouault wrote: [...] > The only cases where it makes sense in practice to have a plugin under a > permissive license are : [...] > - a more reasonable use case would be a plugin that would be compatible of > QGIS and another proprietary GIS through some abstraction

Re: [Qgis-developer] Plugin licence

2016-05-25 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hi, On 25/05/2016 14:07, Tom Chadwin wrote: > Vincent Picavet (ml) wrote >> A grey area would be for example if you were using a QWebEngine >> component in your Python Plugin, directly calling javascript functions >> of the Javascript library from your Python code. >> I

Re: [Qgis-developer] Plugin licence

2016-05-25 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hello, On 25/05/2016 11:42, Tom Chadwin wrote: > Vincent Picavet (ml) wrote >> I may be wrong, but if qgis2web is like qgis2three, it generates >> projects containing OL3 or leaflet code ? >> In this case, there is no code link between the Python plugin and >> Leafle

Re: [Qgis-developer] Plugin licence

2016-05-25 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hi, On 25/05/2016 12:39, Even Rouault wrote: [..] > > > Technically you could licence the plugin with any license you want, but as > soon you execute it against QGIS, it must be compatible of GPL v2+, since it > is a derived work of QGIS GPLv2 code, and thus it must convey the same rights > a

Re: [Qgis-developer] Plugin licence

2016-05-25 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hello, On 25/05/2016 10:41, Tom Chadwin wrote: > Of course, since qgis2web is middleware, its licence also has to be > compatible with Leaflet, Openlayers 3, and their respective plugins, none of > which are GPL. Since the plugin bundles and distributes these libraries, I > would say complying wit

Re: [Qgis-developer] Plugin licence

2016-05-23 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hi Tom, QGIS is GPLv2+ A a Python import is considered being equivalent to a dynamic link, it triggers the "share-alike" clause of the GPL. Therefore all QGIS plugins must be licenced as GPLv2+ if they are distributed. Vincent On 23/05/2016 17:12, Tom Chadwin wrote: > I know that a QGIS plugin h

Re: [Qgis-developer] [WIP] slider to zoom canvas like a magnifier

2016-04-11 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hi, On 11/04/2016 09:02, Paul Blottiere wrote: > Announcing WIP for a slider providing a way to zoom the canvas, like a > magnifier does. > > A use case is for example to facilitate the manual placement of small > labels. > > A way to set up this tool is planned too (minimum, maximum and step).

Re: [Qgis-developer] zip file uploads allowed on github issues?!

2016-03-10 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hello, On 09/03/2016 19:50, Tim Sutton wrote: > Hi [...] > Yes really great news! +1 for moving to GitHub issues ASAP. Do we have a plan to try not breaking tickets references in commit entries ? Any idea on how to handle this issue ? Vincent ___ Qgis

Re: [Qgis-developer] Adding new provider for QGIS

2016-01-26 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hi, Last but not least, make sure that all your code can be actually distributed under a GPLv2+ licence. This means that the people who wrote the code are ok with this, and also that you do not use any non-compatible external code. Vincent On 25/01/2016 21:57, David Adler wrote: > We would like

Re: [Qgis-developer] QEP - Proposal for QGIS 3.0 after 2.14

2015-12-10 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hi Nyall, You just beat me on the same email a few minutes away :-) > - Get PSC to vote on and accept > https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/29 . Needs > to be done ASAP so that we're all agreed that 2.14 is the last 2.0 > series release. +1 > - Decide on the timing for 3.0

Re: [Qgis-developer] QTraffic: I would never accept a plugin that I'm author ; )

2015-12-02 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hello, I second Tim on both points. Vincent On 02/12/2015 10:38, Tim Sutton wrote: > Hi Luigi > > >> On 02 Dec 2015, at 05:43, Luigi Pirelli > > wrote: >> >> Hi qgis devs >> >> I just published the QTraffic plugin... It's a plugin developed for >> the Coimbra universit

Re: [Qgis-developer] Project quality discussion

2015-11-09 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hello, On 07/11/2015 00:08, Nyall Dawson wrote: > On 7 Nov 2015 12:22 AM, "Hugo Mercier" > wrote: >> - if a company with no core developer wants to ensure a new feature is >> accepted, it should pay another core developer for the reviewing part. >> Ideally the mo

Re: [Qgis-developer] Project quality discussion

2015-11-09 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hello, On 07/11/2015 00:08, Nyall Dawson wrote: > On 7 Nov 2015 12:22 AM, "Hugo Mercier" > wrote: >> - if a company with no core developer wants to ensure a new feature is >> accepted, it should pay another core developer for the reviewing part. >> Ideally the mo

Re: [Qgis-developer] Plugin Dependencies

2015-11-05 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hello, On 05/11/2015 09:50, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote: > On 05-11-15 04:56, Tim Sutton wrote: >[...] >>> I'm afraid that by using a much more complicate system (such as >>> setuptools), would solve some problem for the (few) complex plugins >>> and create a lot of problems and increase the barrie

Re: [Qgis-developer] A common set of functions for QGIS plugins

2015-11-03 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hello Victor, A definite +1 on this. Also maybe a parent QGISPlugin class all plugins would inherit from ? As a side note on plugin, but important, Hugo intends at the hackfest to propose and discuss having plugins be Python modules, so that we can use PIP to deal with module and plugins dependen

Re: [Qgis-developer] A common set of functions for QGIS plugins

2015-11-03 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hello Victor, A definite +1 on this. Also maybe a parent QGISPlugin class all plugins would inherit from ? As a side note on plugin, but important, Hugo intends at the hackfest to propose and discuss having plugins be Python modules, so that we can use PIP to deal with module and plugins dependen

Re: [Qgis-developer] A common set of functions for QGIS plugins

2015-11-03 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hello Victor, A definite +1 on this. Also maybe a parent QGISPlugin class all plugins would inherit from ? As a side note on plugin, but important, Hugo intends at the hackfest to propose and discuss having plugins be Python modules, so that we can use PIP to deal with module and plugins dependen

Re: [Qgis-developer] What's your view on QGIS plugins that connect to non-GPL software?

2015-09-08 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hello Crispin, On 08/09/2015 14:10, Crispin Cooper wrote: > Hi qgis-developers, > I produce my own network analysis software sDNA (www.cardiff.ac.uk/sdna > ). It currently runs as a plugin for > ArcGIS or Autocad, from the command line, with a standalone GUI, or > t

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS indexing data when editing

2015-08-13 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hello, 30s freeze is something which seems rather unpleasant for the user. Could we imagine to do the indexing in background ? And maybe indexing only what is currently in the user's extent, if this is not what is currently done ? Indexing a whole layer for editing seems a no-go. We should mayb

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS update available plugin and/or ping back plugin

2015-08-03 Thread Vincent Picavet (ml)
Hello, On 03/08/2015 10:23, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote: > In a separate thread, Neal raises the point below. Moving it to a > separate thread here. > > Nyal asks: "... On a semi-related theme, we really need a core "QGIS > update available" plugin. I suspect there's a ton of users still on > 2.8.

Re: [Qgis-developer] 2.8.2?

2015-04-29 Thread Vincent Picavet - ML
Hello, Le mercredi 29 avril 2015, 08:11:57 Paolo Cavallini a écrit : > Il 29/04/2015 08:07, kimaidou ha scritto: > > auto-update feature > > > > "a la Firefox", but a simple warning could be a great addition IMHO. > +1 Having a RSS feed on the website, with all released versions (stable/nightl

Re: [Qgis-developer] Strange behaviour in feature ids when editing PostGIS layer

2015-03-02 Thread Vincent Picavet - ML
Hello, Le samedi 28 février 2015, 04:43:53 Régis Haubourg a écrit : > Hi, > well pgadmin sets table view in readonly mode if no Primary Key is defined.. > That is more than a good practice from a DBA point of view, I wouldn't be > against such a constraint for tables. We should raise some user war

Re: [Qgis-developer] Compression in libpq?

2015-02-13 Thread Vincent Picavet - ML
Hi, Another option is to use SSL, which since version 0.9.8 uses compression by default. In this case you do not need any specific software neither tunnels. SSH tunnels are a good solution too though. Setting up a VPN with compression activated is another option. Just be aware that compressing

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS Certification IRC meeting, Thrus 12 Feb, 2015

2015-02-11 Thread Vincent Picavet - ML
Hello, Le vendredi 6 février 2015, 17:34:46 Tim Sutton a écrit : > Hi All > > We will be holding a meeting on IRC to discuss QGIS training and > certification on Thursday 12 Feb 2015 and 14h00 GMT in the channel > #qgis-certification. > > If you have ideas about a certification programme for QGI