Re: [Qgis-developer] one email address for plugin approvers

2014-02-13 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 12/02/2014 13:38, Olivier Dalang ha scritto: Multiline descriptions in the metadata are allowed, newlines are not converted to BR in the HTML though... Good to know ! Is it ok to use HTML then ? Does the same apply to the changelog ? ... BTW: could we set up a checklist for

Re: [Qgis-developer] one email address for plugin approvers

2014-02-13 Thread Richard Duivenvoorde
On 13-02-14 10:35, Paolo Cavallini wrote: Il 12/02/2014 13:38, Olivier Dalang ha scritto: Multiline descriptions in the metadata are allowed, newlines are not converted to BR in the HTML though... Good to know ! Is it ok to use HTML then ? Does the same apply to the changelog ? ...

Re: [Qgis-developer] one email address for plugin approvers

2014-02-13 Thread Vincent Picavet
Hello, Le jeudi 13 février 2014 12:15:24, Richard Duivenvoorde a écrit : ...[snip]... Approval: 1) your plugin will not be public until it is approved by a set of community approvers 2) give approvers some time to do this (after 2 weeks just email to...) 3) to approve we check that

Re: [Qgis-developer] one email address for plugin approvers

2014-02-13 Thread Olivier Dalang
Hi ! I made a quick draft about a potential plugin approval checklist : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ag5xh-UHkkZLdG56V2p4cXRGVkNDb0tYZjhVYjhhcmcusp=sharing Please extend it or change it ! Olivier 2014-02-13 12:22 GMT+01:00 Vincent Picavet vincent...@oslandia.com: Hello,

Re: [Qgis-developer] one email address for plugin approvers

2014-02-13 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 13/02/2014 12:22, Vincent Picavet ha scritto: There is no choice on the licence a plugin can be distributed under : a python import is considered a link, therefore the import qgis.core is enough to propagate the GPL licence to the plugin. confirmed. all the best. -- Paolo Cavallini -

Re: [Qgis-developer] one email address for plugin approvers

2014-02-13 Thread Alex Mandel
On 02/13/2014 03:15 AM, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote: On 13-02-14 10:35, Paolo Cavallini wrote: Il 12/02/2014 13:38, Olivier Dalang ha scritto: Multiline descriptions in the metadata are allowed, newlines are not converted to BR in the HTML though... Good to know ! Is it ok to use HTML

Re: [Qgis-developer] one email address for plugin approvers

2014-02-13 Thread Richard Duivenvoorde
On 13-02-14 20:23, Alex Mandel wrote: For the first point (orange block) can we standardize on Github? Can we ask from the average plugin author to put his code on Github? Because then an author has both an issuetracker and either a README or a wiki. We have always stated that any issue

Re: [Qgis-developer] one email address for plugin approvers

2014-02-13 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 13/02/2014 22:33, Richard Duivenvoorde ha scritto: So not forcing to some kind of system. Just enforcing at least a public code repository + email. And preferably a issuetracker and a webpage. Agreed? IMHO opinion one repo and one bugtracker are necessary. any reasonable system will do.

Re: [Qgis-developer] one email address for plugin approvers

2014-02-13 Thread Nathan Woodrow
-1 for forcing people to use a single system. I am happy to make a source repo mandatory, anyone who touches code should know to do that anyway however I don't want to force people into a system they don't want/like. I prefer github to our own hub so I would not upload a plugin if forced to

Re: [Qgis-developer] one email address for plugin approvers

2014-02-13 Thread Larry Shaffer
HI, On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Nathan Woodrow madman...@gmail.com wrote: -1 for forcing people to use a single system. I am happy to make a source repo mandatory, anyone who touches code should know to do that anyway however I don't want to force people into a system they don't

Re: [Qgis-developer] one email address for plugin approvers

2014-02-12 Thread Richard Duivenvoorde
On 11-02-14 23:40, Alex Mandel wrote: An alias or a mailing list? I was thinking of an alias for now. Regards, Richard ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer

Re: [Qgis-developer] one email address for plugin approvers

2014-02-12 Thread Olivier Dalang
Hi ! -1 for making the homepage mandatory... If it's only to display the plugin's help/readme information, we should rather have the developpers create some help/readme file for each plugin, which could be opened directly from within QGIS. IMO that's much better than a link which opens in the

Re: [Qgis-developer] one email address for plugin approvers

2014-02-12 Thread Alessandro Pasotti
2014-02-12 13:20 GMT+01:00 Olivier Dalang olivier.dal...@gmail.com: Hi ! -1 for making the homepage mandatory... If it's only to display the plugin's help/readme information, we should rather have the developpers create some help/readme file for each plugin, which could be opened directly

Re: [Qgis-developer] one email address for plugin approvers

2014-02-12 Thread Olivier Dalang
Multiline descriptions in the metadata are allowed, newlines are not converted to BR in the HTML though... Good to know ! Is it ok to use HTML then ? Does the same apply to the changelog ? ... The default metadata.txt file should be more explicit about how to format the entries... A few days

Re: [Qgis-developer] one email address for plugin approvers

2014-02-12 Thread Richard Duivenvoorde
On 12-02-14 13:38, Olivier Dalang wrote: Good to know ! Is it ok to use HTML then ? Does the same apply to the changelog ? ... Docs say no (I also tried): http://www.qgis.org/en/docs/pyqgis_developer_cookbook/plugins.html#plugin-metadata Regards, Richard Duivenvoorde

Re: [Qgis-developer] one email address for plugin approvers

2014-02-12 Thread Alessandro Pasotti
2014-02-12 14:08 GMT+01:00 Richard Duivenvoorde rdmaili...@duif.net: On 12-02-14 13:38, Olivier Dalang wrote: Good to know ! Is it ok to use HTML then ? Does the same apply to the changelog ? ... Multiline: yes HTML: no UTF8: yes -- w3: www.itopen.it

[Qgis-developer] one email address for plugin approvers

2014-02-11 Thread Richard Duivenvoorde
Hi Devs, tl;dr; can we make an email address: approv...@qgis.org for which an email can be sent to all approvers? who can arrange this? I'm busy weeding the long list of unapproved plugins. Some of them are so old the I just sent the author an email if it is ok to remove it. Other have some

Re: [Qgis-developer] one email address for plugin approvers

2014-02-11 Thread Alex Mandel
An alias or a mailing list? Long term, finding a way to open tickets on plugin submission would be a way to track them publicly. Thanks, Alex On 02/11/2014 01:50 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote: Hi Devs, tl;dr; can we make an email address: approv...@qgis.org for which an email can be sent

Re: [Qgis-developer] one email address for plugin approvers

2014-02-11 Thread Alessandro Pasotti
2014-02-11 22:50 GMT+01:00 Richard Duivenvoorde rdmaili...@duif.net: Hi Devs, tl;dr; can we make an email address: approv...@qgis.org for which an email can be sent to all approvers? who can arrange this? I'm busy weeding the long list of unapproved plugins. Some of them are so old the

Re: [Qgis-developer] one email address for plugin approvers

2014-02-11 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 12/02/2014 08:12, Alessandro Pasotti ha scritto: I think that the plugin home page should be a page about the plugin itself. There are many others like this that I can't recall now. right. IMHO a home page is nice to have, but not necessary. bugtracker, code, and some description are. all

Re: [Qgis-developer] one email address for plugin approvers

2014-02-11 Thread Gino Pirelli
OT, but related :) I would appreciate a field more in Metadata... a maintainer(s) optional section. It's not strictly necessary because of trac, but a lot of time the first Author of the plugin is disappeared or can't invest time in the plugin, but she(he) still receives issues or mails from