Hi all,
On 08/27/2018 02:06 AM, Nyall Dawson wrote: > On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 at 04:11, Borys Jurgiel <li...@borysjurgiel.pl> wrote: >> Hi Lists, >> >> Before I make a QEP I'd like to know your general thoughts. >> >> After I removed the deprecated plugins filter from the Plugin manager (and >> make them always visible) [1], Alex suggested doing the same with the >> Experimental status. > I'm -1 on this. Experimental plugins can be dangerous (some result in > crashes, data corruption, etc), and shouldn't be shown by default. I agree with Nyall. Furthermore, I'm also -1 on showing deprecated plugins. These are mosty useless, sometimes dangerous. I ask to revert the change ASAP. >> However, I'm not sure if it makes much sense nowadays. Releasing 'stable' and >> 'experimental' versions seems a bit overscaled to me. And there is a simpler >> solution: If the recent version is buggy, users can just download the last >> working one from the repo and install from zip. > I think that's overestimating some of our user's abilities -- it would > take a lot of knowledge that: > 1. a plugin is at fault > 2. they can overwrite a plugin manually with an earlier version > and > 3. they can download earlier versions of plugins. > > Then, they'd also need to know *which* older plugin version is "good" > and should be downloaded. Agreed fully. > I think it should be kept. I know of one buggy plugin which recently > got marked as experimental, and I'm *very* glad to see this particular > plugin hidden from the majority of our users by default. Again, agreed. 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 QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer