Re: [Qgis-user] [Qgis-developer] Better tags for plugins

2015-02-23 Thread Alessandro Pasotti
2015-02-23 16:18 GMT+01:00 Frank M. Howell : > My two cents...I understand the validation requirements. But I think the > fundamental problem is those plugin authors who submit a plugin for X and > then describe it thusly: "This is a plugin for X" where X is the same name as > the plugin. The pr

Re: [Qgis-user] [Qgis-developer] Better tags for plugins

2015-02-23 Thread Frank M. Howell
My two cents...I understand the validation requirements. But I think the fundamental problem is those plugin authors who submit a plugin for X and then describe it thusly: "This is a plugin for X" where X is the same name as the plugin. The problem is that this one word or very brief phrase isn'

Re: [Qgis-user] [Qgis-developer] Better tags for plugins

2015-02-23 Thread Alessandro Pasotti
2015-02-23 15:41 GMT+01:00 Trevor Wiens : > In my experience Paulo has been doing good job of encouraging developers to > do just that. > > If we want to formalize it further it might be a good idea to set the > requirements lower for experimental plugins as it happens to be a helpful > means of f

Re: [Qgis-user] [Qgis-developer] Better tags for plugins

2015-02-23 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Paulo, Surely this can be "enforced" by having requirements for acceptance on the official plugin repository. If a plugin doesn't fulfil all the requirements, it doesn't get included. Possible requirements (to give an idea): - Brief description of plugin, - Detailed explanation of plugin. - "

Re: [Qgis-user] [Qgis-developer] Better tags for plugins

2015-02-20 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 20/02/2015 08:13, Alessandro Pasotti ha scritto: > Would you mind writing a short sentence that summarize the rules for > an ideal tag? > I could add them into http://plugins.qgis.org website and maybe they > can also be added to the plugin builder. This would be a very good enhancement. Pleas

Re: [Qgis-user] [Qgis-developer] Better tags for plugins

2015-02-19 Thread Alessandro Pasotti
2015-02-20 1:47 GMT+01:00 Trevor Wiens : > I took a look through the list and if you wany to make a consistent set of > tags to use then the list will need to be short and obvious.In this light I > would make the following suggestions: > > 1. The is comprised of items that could be used to make com