Hi ! I made a quick draft about a potential plugin approval checklist : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ag5xh-UHkkZLdG56V2p4cXRGVkNDb0tYZjhVYjhhcmc&usp=sharing
Please extend it or change it ! Olivier 2014-02-13 12:22 GMT+01:00 Vincent Picavet <[email protected]>: > 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 (checklist): > [...] > > - has a proper license (???? which one? and info about that??) > > 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. > There may be some other files under different licences though, namely > sample > data, documentation or whatever else is not concerned by the link and GPL > "contamination". > > Vincent > > > - supports english language > > - does not duplicate of existing functionality or plugin, unless there > > is a very good reason (plz provide this reason in the description or > > metadata) > > > > 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. > > > > Then here: > > > > > http://www.qgis.org/en/docs/pyqgis_developer_cookbook/plugins.html#plugin-m > > etadata-table > > > > AND in the plugin code, make repository a required property, and keep > > homepage and tracker optional. BUT that should be enforced in the plugin > > repo code then. > > > > > > Is this clear enough? > > Please comment/rewrite in a way that I can copy it into the website. > > > > Regards, > > > > Richard Duivenvoorde > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Qgis-developer mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >
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