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Shouldn't that be filed in the trackers of the missing plugins?

Maybe yes, but:

• not all missing plugins have a bugtracker
• I believe this is a general issue, that can be solved with a mass importation rather than one by one.

Of course, this is open to discussion.

Paolo Cavallini wrote:

Maybe yes, but:

• not all missing plugins have a bugtracker
• I believe this is a general issue, that can be solved with a mass importation rather than one by one.

Of course, this is open to discussion.

But it's not a qgis issue...

But it's not a qgis issue...

well, but "qgis" changed its policy, and now functionalities are lost.
it may be discussed in length and breadth whos fault that is, but at least its a "bug" in the documentation, cause users are highly irritated and nearly no information was published what happened and how this process is going to be coordinated.
This will only result in thousands of hours of lost time with frustrating searches, when people find a tutorial for their problem, but they have no clue where to get the plugin and when they found it, how to install it from outside the plugin installer.

My top 2 plugins for the start:
openlayers:
A lot people have no access to imagery and benefit a lot from this.
table manager:
Though a lot functionalities already went into core, you still can't reorder or rename columns in a shapefile dbf within qgis without extra steps in the field calculator.

Thanx for your great work!

Table Manager has been migrated

Bernd Vogelgesang wrote:

But it's not a qgis issue...

well, but "qgis" changed its policy, and now functionalities are lost.
it may be discussed in length and breadth whos fault that is, but at least its a "bug" in the documentation, cause users are highly irritated and nearly no information was published what happened and how this process is going to be coordinated.

The question isn't who's fault it is - the question is who can do something about it. If it's not a qgis issue, it doesn't belong here. I think the plugin authors need to act and they probably don't care much about a ticket here.

We can't do much in qgis about it, except to reinstate the old repository list or hijack all plugins - both probably not what we want.

I think there is a general agreement on moving the plugins from old to new repo - it's a simple backend replacement after all, no interference with real life of plugins.

Paolo Cavallini wrote:

I think there is a general agreement on moving the plugins from old to new repo - it's a simple backend replacement after all, no interference with real life of plugins.

huh? if that's so, why isn't it done already?

Usual reason - lack of time?