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 facilitating testing plugins on different platforms. TSW On Feb 23, 2015 4:26 AM, "Jonathan Moules" <j.mou...@hrwallingford.com> wrote: > 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. > - "How to use" documentation. > - Useful, consistent tags. > - Homepage/tracker/repository links (that work and go somewhere relevant). > - Author > - Changelog > - Date of last plugin release > - Supported QGIS Versions > > This may (will) mean fewer plugins, however the plugins that don't get > included would be ones with poor user documentation. Most plugins fail > quite badly at making it clear what they do, let alone how to use them. > That lot wouldn't take much more than half an hour to do for any given > plugin (with only a few very-complex exceptions) and would make plugins > much more useable. > > Cheers, > Jonathan > > > -----Original Message----- > From: qgis-developer-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto: > qgis-developer-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Paolo Cavallini > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 1:12 PM > To: Lynton Cox > Cc: qgis-user; qgis-developer > Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] Better tags for plugins > > Hi Lynton, > > Il 19/02/2015 19:21, Lynton Cox ha scritto: > > Please don't forget the newbies need to know exactly what plugins > > might be used for - some have hardly any description. Once out of the > > basic QGIS manual finding one's way around isnt that easy. Many > > amateurs in areas such as local studies realise how useful GIS but see > > that jargon and acronyms can fog the path. > > Yes, the About is often neglected. I invite plugin authors to add a > reasonable description, but I cannot enforce this. > A very good idea would be for the user to write a short note and add it to > a feature request, through the plugin bugtracker; even better, this could > be added as a Pull Request on the plugin repository. > All the best, and thanks. > > -- > Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu > QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html > *New course* "QGIS for naturalists": > http://www.faunalia.eu/en/nat_course.html > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > > This message has been scanned for viruses by MailControl - > www.mailcontrol.com > > > > Click > https://www.mailcontrol.com/sr/SVGcvJSn6gnGX2PQPOmvUizKrmxxhcEGGlzw3ci4oH!oYUmIc3YrHGSGHzny8KZlOXtgio1tB25zr!jqbv!p6A== > to report this email as spam. > > ________________________________ > > HR Wallingford and its subsidiaries uses faxes and emails for confidential > and legally privileged business communications. They do not of themselves > create legal commitments. Disclosure to parties other than addressees > requires our specific consent. We are not liable for unauthorised > disclosures nor reliance upon them. > If you have received this message in error please advise us immediately > and destroy all copies of it. > > HR Wallingford Limited > Howbery Park, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 8BA, United Kingdom > Registered in England No. 02562099 > > ________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >
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