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On 25/08/2014 17:01, Alessandro Pasotti wrote: > Hi, > > It seems like most of us are still confused about mandatory > metadata in Python plugins. > > There have been a lot of discussions on this topic in the past and > I would like to resume the discussion. > > IIRC the most debated questions were: > > * if "homepage" must be mandatory * if "tracker" must be mandatory > * if "repository" must be mandatory > > We somewhat agreed about leaving those metadata optional but > "highly recommended", this means that the automatic validator still > accepts the plugin but a warning is shown to the author and to > website staff users. > > The plugin approval is not automatic, if somebody thinks that for > a particular plugin one of those metadata are absolutely necessary > he/she can just unapprove the plugin. > > I'm still convinced that the a.m. metadata should be recommended > but not mandatory but of course we can change this policy. > > If I missed the point in which a different decision was taken, > please let me know and I will add those rules to the validator. > I agree they should remain optional for now. Regards Tim - -- - ------------------------------------------------------ Tim Sutton Visit http://kartoza.com to find out about open source: * Desktop GIS programming services * Geospatial web development * GIS Training * Consulting Services Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net Tim is a member of the QGIS Project Steering Committee - ------------------------------------------------------ Kartoza is a merger between Linfiniti and Afrispatial -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlP7UOEACgkQqk07qZdiYjerFwCeNJ9LTGXxE5KY9frDtPRkMqKL vjQAoNPLSM5d6Z38dlZLFHwWC82cymUX =x2uO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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