If it's not too much trouble for whomever manages the plugins site, it might be worth simply adding the changelog bit to plugins.xml and see the size difference then.
I was initially worried but the more I think about it the more I get a feeling it should be just fine. On Sat, Mar 9, 2019, 7:14 PM Alessandro Pasotti <apaso...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I like the idea, I'm just worried about the increased size of the XML on > option A: we don't have any control over the changelog size (well, we could > truncate the changelog if it's too long but I don't know if that makes much > sense). > > > > On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 11:38 AM Mathieu Pellerin <nirvn.a...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> While applying a couple of commits to QGIS' plugin manager, I would like >> to fix a long-standing UX issue with it, namely that plugins that show a >> newer version available do _not_ show the latest changelog but rather the >> changelog of the currently installed plugin version. >> >> It'd much nicer, and exciting for users, to show what's new _prior to_ >> hitting the [ update plugin ] button. >> >> For that to happen, we'd need either: a/ add the changelog information in >> the repository XML file fetched (i.e. >> https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/plugins.xml?qgis=3.6), or b/ add a >> method to fetch changelog strings from the repository site (for e.g., >> https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/changelog.xml?names=plugin1,plugin2,plugin3 >> ). >> >> Unless adding the short changelog to the repository XML adds too many >> MBs, I'd vote for option A. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Mathieu >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > > > -- > Alessandro Pasotti > w3: www.itopen.it >
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