Hi Stefan, thanks for your suggestions. Replies below. On 31/03/19 16:03, Stefan Keller wrote:
> 1. The plugin was renamed from QTiles to QTiles3 > 2. In metadata.txt of QTiles3 the 3 entries "homepage, tracker, > repository" all are pointing to the original github repo of NextGIS > [3], but the code for QTiles3 is not there. It's IMHO not yet made > publicly available, except by the fact that Python code is always > included in the zip uploaded to the QGIS repo. > > Ad 1: I think renaming a plugin just because it's upgraded to QGIS 3 > should be discouraged. Agreed, I routinely do it. I'm not always successful convincing the authors, unfortunately, and in some cases I publish the new plugin nonetheless because of its usefulness. > Ad 2: To me QGIS maintainers should somehow be able to check in a > computer-supported way, if the plugin code uploaded is identical with > the code repo indicated in metadata.txt. right, currently it is quite unpractical to do it for all 1000+ plugins, and for the 2-4 new or upgraded versions arriving daily. could you please open a ticket on this? > I'd like to propose to extend chapter "Recommendations" [4] with > following addendums: > > * Don't rename the plugin title just because it's upgraded to a newer > version like QGIS 3. > > * Check if source code uploaded to the QGIS plugin repo as zip is > identical to "Code repository" indicated in metadata.txt. > > In addition I suggested adding "Requirements" as optional > field/entry/line in metadata.txt" in another thread. But as a short > term action (until a "Requirements" field/entry/line is adopted in > metadata.txt) I'd also suggest this text in chapter "Recommendations" > [4]: > > * Mention any requirements, dependencies and restrictions in the > description text section (which can be multi-line). Examples of > requirements, dependencies and restrictions are, if the plugin is > running only on selected platforms, requires SW to be installed > separately or some user account, but also if the plugin is spatially > covering just some countries or regions. > > What do you think? Your suggestions added. Thanks. -- 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
