+1 to thrusted author side +1 to trust Tom... can we use the same OSGeo charters memeber mechanism to nominate thrusted authors? Luigi Pirelli
************************************************************************************************** * Boundless QGIS Support/Development: lpirelli AT boundlessgeo DOT com * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigipirelli * Stackexchange: http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/19667/luigi-pirelli * GitHub: https://github.com/luipir * Mastering QGIS 2nd Edition: * https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/mastering-qgis-second-edition ************************************************************************************************** On 8 September 2017 at 13:45, Matthias Kuhn <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tom, > > I understand this sentiment very well. Do you think formalizing the > process to become a "Trusted Author" and making it more transparent > would help here? > > Your statement does not seems not to critizise the move of switching > trust from plugins to authors. But more the "in-or-out" in general. > Important here is, that the idea is to put more stress on the "in" > rather than the "out" (by saying "trusted author" rather than "untrusted > author"). If you have an idea how this can be made even more visible, I > think there's a good chance that we can mitigate unwanted side-effects > and potentially hard feelings of this better. > > Sidnote: > I will immediately vote to make you a trusted author, we all very well > know the work you've put into qgis2web and close relations with the > community. While I think you should get the label anyway, I think > there's a different discussion you wanted to trigger here. > > Matthias > > On 09/08/2017 01:29 PM, Tom Chadwin wrote: >> So it's not that you don't trust my work, it's that you don't trust me? >> >> As an untrusted plugin author, I should say that this makes little >> difference. While I 100% understand the rationale behind this process, it >> still feels like a bit of a slap in the face. Perhaps the use of the word >> "trust", be it applied to plugin or author, is too loaded for me. In fact, >> transferring the usage to individuals makes it more galling - it's one thing >> for the work I have done voluntarily over the past three or four years not >> to be trusted by the core devs, but it's quite another for me, personally, >> not to be trusted. >> >> I of course understand that the inference is not that I and my work are not >> trusted. I simply worded that last sentence deliberately to make the point >> that this label, and its absence, seems arbitrary at best, possibly >> reinforces the (otherwise seldom apparent) clique nature of devs in general >> and the QGIS core devs in particular, and at worst is insulting. >> >> Hope you understand - I feel the point had to be made. >> >> Thanks >> >> Tom >> >> >> >> ----- >> Buy Pie Spy: Adventures in British pastry 2010-11 on Amazon >> -- >> Sent from: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/QGIS-Developer-f4099106.html >> _______________________________________________ >> QGIS-Developer mailing list >> [email protected] >> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
