Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] Better tags for plugins

2015-02-23 Thread Jonathan Moules
, Jonathan -Original Message- From: qgis-developer-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-developer-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Paolo Cavallini Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 1:12 PM To: Lynton Cox Cc: qgis-user; qgis-developer Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] Better tags

Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] Better tags for plugins

2015-02-23 Thread Trevor Wiens
To: Lynton Cox Cc: qgis-user; qgis-developer Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] Better tags for plugins Hi Lynton, Il 19/02/2015 19:21, Lynton Cox ha scritto: Please don't forget the newbies need to know exactly what plugins might be used for - some have hardly any description. Once out

Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] Better tags for plugins

2015-02-23 Thread Trevor Wiens
I was referring to manual vetting. TSW On Feb 23, 2015 7:49 AM, Alessandro Pasotti apaso...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-02-23 15:41 GMT+01:00 Trevor Wiens tsw@gmail.com: In my experience Paulo has been doing good job of encouraging developers to do just that. If we want to formalize it

Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] Better tags for plugins

2015-02-23 Thread Alessandro Pasotti
2015-02-23 16:18 GMT+01:00 Frank M. Howell frankmhow...@gmail.com: My two cents...I understand the validation requirements. But I think the fundamental problem is those plugin authors who submit a plugin for X and then describe it thusly: This is a plugin for X where X is the same name as

Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] Better tags for plugins

2015-02-23 Thread Alessandro Pasotti
2015-02-23 15:41 GMT+01:00 Trevor Wiens tsw@gmail.com: In my experience Paulo has been doing good job of encouraging developers to do just that. If we want to formalize it further it might be a good idea to set the requirements lower for experimental plugins as it happens to be a helpful

Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] Better tags for plugins

2015-02-20 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Hi Lynton, Il 19/02/2015 19:21, Lynton Cox ha scritto: Please don't forget the newbies need to know exactly what plugins might be used for - some have hardly any description. Once out of the basic QGIS manual finding one's way around isnt that easy. Many amateurs in areas such as local