+1 for Tom to become a trusted author. In addition to the qgis2web plugin, Tom is a very active in QGIS UK usergroups.
Cheers Saber On 8 September 2017 at 13:17, Luigi Pirelli <[email protected]> wrote: > +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 > -- Saber Razmjooei www.lutraconsulting.co.uk +44 (0)7568 129733
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