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 users. my 2c
regards, Luigi Pirelli On 12 February 2014 08:12, Alessandro Pasotti <apaso...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 I just sent the author an email if it is ok >> to remove it. >> >> Other have some older versions unapproved, so I ask to either approve >> them or delete these versions. >> >> Others just have been added pretty recently, but miss certain metadata >> information and did not get attention from an approver. >> >> I propose to make homepage, repository and tracker mandatory properties >> too (at least for approval). So we have to fix this in: >> >> >> http://www.qgis.org/en/docs/pyqgis_developer_cookbook/releasing.html#validation >> and >> >> http://www.qgis.org/en/docs/pyqgis_developer_cookbook/plugins.html#plugin-metadata-table >> >> > > If we enforce Homepage, we also have to pay attention to the link content: > > this is a meaningless example: > > http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/QSpatialReport/ (homepage link broken and > even if it were not broken, still unrelated with the plugin since it's the > company homepage) > > 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. > > > -- > Alessandro Pasotti > w3: www.itopen.it > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >
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