Vaclav Petras <wenzesl...@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 6:32 PM, Markus Neteler <nete...@osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>  The general criteria are
>  - code follows submission standards
>  - must be portable
>  - must be well documented with examples
>  - must be of interest to a wider audience
>
> I would add "well tested (i.e. very mature) or having somebody willing to fix 
> it (soon) if needed".
>
> Related to that, I wonder if we should create some standard mechanism for 
> introducing experimental things - things which might later show as unstable,
> not useful or buggy. For example, I introduced v.decimate which is now in 7.2 
> branch. It has its merit but I started to think that perhaps a different set 
> of
> functions or interface can be more useful there. I wonder if I should just 
> put [experimental - use with care] at the end of the module description.

I would add the following:

1) add [experimental] / [beta] / ... behind the in the menu
2) disable the experimental / beta / ... addons
3) add an option to enable all the experimental / beta / ... addons, which can 
than state
"experimental, might make your computer explode, use at own risk and only in
well ventilated rooms"...

Cheers,

Rainer

>
> This is out-of-topic here, but similarly we might want to introduce something 
> like [deprecated] for modules, options and flags.
>
> Vaclav
>
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