Hi Paolo On 2/3/19 1:39 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: > 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).
Then I misunderstood the goal of this proposal, sorry. I was imagining myself looking through a plugin list of a software of which I am an ordinary user and seeing a plugin tagged as "unmaintained". This would make me think it's unreliable, outdated and unstable and hence not recommended. What signal do you think this label should send to a user? > >> 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. > Bests _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
