Can you plan a version for QGIS 3?

[hsquividant]

+1 Is anybody there ?

[Zeitsperre]

It's possible that this project has been abandoned, which is really too bad. Seeing as it's GPLv2, somebody could fork this if they had the interest.

[hdus]

We are happy to continue the project, but unfortunately there is no interest in porting to QGIS 3. A porting is possible, if the financing is secured.

[jonnyforestGIS]

@hdus can I suggest crowdfunding for this, perhaps users together can gather enough financing to have this porting for QGIS 3. Best regards

[hsquividant]

+1 Thanks @jonnyforestGIS !

[hdus]

Crowdfunding is a good idea. Who will take care of it? @jonnyforestGIS will do it?

[jonnyforestGIS]

Hi @hdus I search a little bit and Sourcepole page can have a sponsor button from GitHub, one of the ways:

Is sponsor by month with a fixed amount. https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/supporting-the-open-source-community-with-github-sponsors/sponsoring-open-source-contributors

A draft idea can be: you quantify the cost of plugin porting set a price tier/month to sponsors. Then Sourcepole can put a blog entry to announce the sponsorship of this porting. When you reach the achieve disable sponsor button and set a new release with the porting. If you wish, can be used as well to other tasks such as refactoring, add new features and so on.

I found this as well: Open source crowdfunding platform https://github.com/GoteoFoundation/goteo. Can be self-hosted you used in their public site.

How can I help you guys? For me, I'm able to do a micro-donation of 50€, I know is little but it's a start.

Regards

[hdus]

I think there is more to do with the plugin than a simple port to QGIS3. It would be very useful to initiate a new project in which many ideas of the users can flow. Surely it would be very cool, if the plugin would also be able to implement WPS-processing algorithms, like it was thought of and can be found in the code.

One could define new input and output formats, as already thought of in #6 and #7. And many more ideas...

And much more. The discussion is open. I would be happy if there was a cool project that could be realised via crowdfunding.

[hsquividant]

New features would be great and useful to this plugin, but the mere fact WPS Client is once again available for QGIS (3) is very important for us (research & education) and for the future of the OGC WPS standard, I think. I Try to see how we can contribute to this project. Rough estimate of this plugin porting would be useful. best regards

[rduivenvoorde]

For those interested, I merged some commits today in master, to make current plugin at least work with QGIS again.

You can either wait till we do a new release, OR you can download current master code as ZIP and install in QGIS with 'Install plugin as ZIP'.

Please let me know if you have any public WPS service to talk to! There is not so much to test against :-)

[hdus]

Migration to QGIS 3 is estimated to take 4 days. Richard Duivenvoorde has already laid the first stone for migration. But a fully tested migration will certainly take 4 days. That means costs of EUR 5120. If this financing is secured, we will migrate the plugin.

It would also be very good to have a test server available. Who can offer one?

[Zeitsperre]

For the test server, are you just looking for something to ping off of, or something you have control over? I can potentially point you to a WPS service my group maintains, if that's of interest.

[hsquividant]

Thanks a lot @rduivenvoorde ! It Works great with our WPS services.

[hdus]

For the test server, are you just looking for something to ping off of, or something you have control over? I can potentially point you to a WPS service my group maintains, if that's of interest.

We are looking for something to pin off. Just for testing different services with different inputs and outputs.

[rduivenvoorde]

There is an experimental version of the plugin available in the official repo now.