Hi Matthias, On 03/02/19 10:17, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
> Marking a plugin as "unmaintained" or "deprecated" is a heavy action which > may discourage developers and make even useful plugins disappear. deprecated yes, unmaintained not necessarily. We could just let the user know, perhaps suggesting a way to solve this, without removing them for the list of available plugins (just like the Featured tag). > Thus if this is done in any way, I am in favor of sending several reminders > to a plugin author over a time period of at least 6 months before taking any > action. It then needs to be super easy for a plugin maintainer to remove this > status from their plugins. agreed. maybe 3 months would be enough. > Maybe alternative approaches could also be considered to move maintained > plugins to the top and make stars / votings more relevant. Or have the > possibility to flag a plugin as unmaintained (like stackoverflows "needs > moderator attention") where it's required to post a link to an issue which > has not received an answer in a long time. unfortunately it seems that our users are not very interested in rating the plugins. > There are various variables which need to be balanced in this discussion like > losing useful plugins, adding maintenance burden (to plugin developers and > plugin maintainers), having a credible plugin ecosystem. Let's make sure we > keep all of them in mind. sure, thanks for your thoughts. the sheer number of plugins makes the issue very delicate; we cannot think of managing 1k plugiins by hand, we need more automatic approaches. all the best. -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu QGIS.ORG Chair: http://planet.qgis.org/planet/user/28/tag/qgis%20board/ _______________________________________________ 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
