On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 3:41 PM Admire Nyakudya via QGIS-Developer < qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> Hi All > > I help out in the approval process of QGIS plugins. There are various > issues that are listed https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Django/issues to > streamline the approval process of plugins. > > Over the years there has been a steady increase in plugins that are not > approved <https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/unapproved/>. This is due to a > number of reasons: > > * Duplication of functionality. Plugin functionality already exists in > QGIS. > > * Plugin authors not willing to address issues raised during the approval > process. > > * Plugins containing binaries (Not really sure about the policy here). > The policy has always been that binaries are NOT allowed. > * Plugins which are a fork of an existing plugin and then they get renamed > to something else without permission from the original author or the author > is no longer interested i.e https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/active_fire2/ > . > > * Old plugins that still use the old architecture i.e Python2. > > Could we either implement the following changes to maintain/cleanup the > plugin repository. > > * Old plugins that were never approved because the author did not care to > resolve issues flagged be deleted from the repository i.e > https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/ban_adresse_locator/ > * Plugins that have vague names and offer functionality that is ambiguious > i.e https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/upload/ be deleted. > > * We could automate the deletion of plugins where feedback has been > received but the author hasn't done any corrective measure maybe after a > month or couple of months. > > * Automatically flag the plugins which are not approved to Deprecated > after some time. > > I think the above and other recommendations will encourage people to use > the plugin repository properly as currently it feels like a dumping ground. > > > Seems fair to me. > On a side note: What is the policy for plugin names. I know it is up to > the author to give his plugin a suitable name but something like > https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/transfer_layerfilegdb_to_geopackage/#plugin-versions > looks like a description rather than a name. > There is no policy AFAIK except that they must be unique and valid directory names (unix) without weird characters. Kind regards. -- Alessandro Pasotti QCooperative: www.qcooperative.net ItOpen: www.itopen.it
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