Hi Admire,
Thank you for helping with the plugins.
I think we can lower the administration time, if we can enable reviews
by the users. Not just voting (that we already have), but written
reviews. Written reviews can address issues you mentioned:
- Duplication of functionality. Plugin functionality already exists in QGIS.
- Plugins containing binaries (and related problems)
- Plugins which are a fork of an existing plugin
- Etc
As an example, Wordpress has about 60k plugins [1]. The submission
process and rules are similar [2]. But the credibility about each plugin
is mostly based on user's reviews, votes and number of downloads.
Basically, we already almost the same data as wordpress about plugins,
but we miss user's reviews. User's reviews can add value.
What do you think?
Regards,
Jorge Gustavo
[1] https://wordpress.org/plugins/
[2] https://wordpress.org/plugins/developers/
On 30/04/24 21:38, Tim Sutton via QGIS-Developer wrote:
Hi Admire
Thanks for this! We can certainly task Lova with helping to streamline
the process, implement better moderation tools etc. With regards to
deleting plugins, I think we should take the approach that we in
general do not physically delete things, rather we unpublish them with
a flag that removes them from the plugins.xml, search on the plugins
page etc. I think it would be prudent to maintain the chain of
evidence in case we ever have a dispute or complaint about a plugin.
Regards
Tim
On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 2:41 PM Admire Nyakudya via QGIS-Developer
<qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
Hi All
I help out in the approval process of QGIS plugins. There are
various issues that are listed
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Django/issues to streamline the
approval process of plugins.
Over the years there has been a steady increase in plugins that
are not approved <https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/unapproved/>.
This is due to a number of reasons:
* Duplication of functionality. Plugin functionality already
exists in QGIS.
* Plugin authors not willing to address issues raised during the
approval process.
* Plugins containing binaries (Not really sure about the policy here).
* Plugins which are a fork of an existing plugin and then they get
renamed to something else without permission from the original
author or the author is no longer interested i.e
https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/active_fire2/.
* Old plugins that still use the old architecture i.e Python2.
Could we either implement the following changes to
maintain/cleanup the plugin repository.
* Old plugins that were never approved because the author did not
care to resolve issues flagged be deleted from the repository i.e
https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/ban_adresse_locator/
* Plugins that have vague names and offer functionality that is
ambiguious i.e https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/upload/ be deleted.
* We could automate the deletion of plugins where feedback has
been received but the author hasn't done any corrective measure
maybe after a month or couple of months.
* Automatically flag the plugins which are not approved to
Deprecated after some time.
I think the above and other recommendations will encourage people
to use the plugin repository properly as currently it feels like a
dumping ground.
On a side note: What is the policy for plugin names. I know it is
up to the author to give his plugin a suitable name but something
like
https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/transfer_layerfilegdb_to_geopackage/#plugin-versions
looks like a description rather than a name.
Regards
Adire
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