Hi Tim,
We already have a problem managing plugins.
The situation will be no better in the future. My suggestion is not to
add an additional problem, just to solve the current one. I understand
your point and opening comments can be a problem. But can also add
valuable information about the plugins. It is a tradeoff.
I would allow comments from authenticated users [1], without any
moderation. The purpose is to get evaluations and feedback from several
users, not from just one user. It works well, as far as I know, at
Wordpress as I mentiones, and many more software with plugins.
It makes sense to be open text, to raise questions, security and privacy
issues and point out features not available in any predefined list of
options.
Maybe in the future we can discuss this again, when we have 10k plugins ;-)
Best regards,
Jorge
[1] Quote from GNOME Extensions: "Unfortunately, to help prevent spam,
we require that you log in to GNOME Shell Extensions
<https://extensions.gnome.org/accounts/login/> in order to post a
comment or report an error. You understand, right?"
On 01/05/24 23:59, Tim Sutton wrote:
Hi Jorge!
On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 11:03 PM Jorge Gustavo Rocha via
QGIS-Developer <qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
Hi Admire,
Thank you for helping with the plugins.
I think we can lower the administration time, if we can enable
reviews by the users. Not just voting (that we already have), but
written reviews. Written reviews can address issues you mentioned:
- Duplication of functionality. Plugin functionality already
exists in QGIS.
- Plugins containing binaries (and related problems)
- Plugins which are a fork of an existing plugin
- Etc
As an example, Wordpress has about 60k plugins [1]. The submission
process and rules are similar [2]. But the credibility about each
plugin is mostly based on user's reviews, votes and number of
downloads.
Basically, we already almost the same data as wordpress about
plugins, but we miss user's reviews. User's reviews can add value.
My concern here would be that we create a new problem: Having to
moderate the comments. Maybe we could use a simple like/dislike and/or
predefined lists of comments (e..g "Works great", "Doesnt work on
Linux", "Doesnt work on macOS" etc.).
Regards
Tim
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