Thanks for the clarification, > They are called featured plugins Thus, the term is misleading. "featured" does not mean "certified". In any case, the bottom issue is that plugins causing problems in QGIS beyond the plugin itself, and in particular those just crashing QGIS should not be entitled to be in the official repository or, at least, required to keep the "experimental" tag. In the absence of further information, the term "official" implies, for the (naive?) user, a commitment to their functionality from the QGIS steering committee. I believe that the note in the QGIS plugins web portal; "Plugins are developed by independent organizations and developers, the QGIS organization does not take any responsibility for them." is somehow conflicting with the term "official". And while all users will read the term "official", very few will reach the aforementioned note. (perhaps this notice should also be in the QGIS plugins menu itself).
Hope this helps to keep QGIS to be seen as a stable and reliable tool. Agus On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 2:08 PM Alexandre Neto <senhor.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello Agustin, > > > Due to the nature/diversity of QGIS third party plugins design there's no > automatic review of the plugins. There's a manual review process to confirm > that they comply with some rules [1], but nothing to test if the plugin does > what it advertises or if in some situations may cause crashes. > > This being said, there are few plugins that have the qgis.org > "certification". They are called featured plugins. > > Hope it helped > > > [1] https://plugins.qgis.org/publish/ > > A quarta, 15/11/2023, 07:16, Agustin Lobo via QGIS-User > <qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org> escreveu: >> >> I am surprised that some plugins downloaded from the official qgis >> repository cause problems in QGIS, sometimes even a crash. >> In the R project, there is a review system that automatically checks >> packages to be uploaded (and to remain) on the equivalent official >> repository. >> Is there an equivalent checking process for QGIS plugins? As a lot of >> important GIS functionality in QGIS is provided by plugins, I think >> this stability check would avoid a lot of user frustration. >> >> Agus >> _______________________________________________ >> QGIS-User mailing list >> QGIS-User@lists.osgeo.org >> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user _______________________________________________ QGIS-User mailing list QGIS-User@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user