[QGIS-Developer] Find unmaintained plugins

[Tim Sutton]

Hi


> On 04 Feb 2019, at 00:30, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 at 00:57, Matthias Kuhn <matthias at opengis.ch <mailto:matthias at opengis.ch>> wrote:
>> 
>> 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 This would make me think it's unreliable, outdated and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.
> 
> I think this actually IS the intention here.
> 
> But, as you've pointed out, no activity =/= unmaintained, as sometimes
> no activity just means bug free and feature complete. In this case I
> think it's fine to require developers to respond to a quick "is this
> still maintained" survey in order to avoid the flag.

And sometimes even if the plugin is unmaintained it is still useful to lots of people (even if it has a few known bugs)…..

I’m not sure if flagging plugins as unmaintained is always so nice.. I would favour an approach where we could just list plugins in the plugin manager based on the date of their last release, most recent first so that you can see old versus new

Definitely -1 here on removing plugins that are orphaned unless they are part of a security / data integrity risk. Many people may have built up specific workflows around the existence of a particular plugin or two and there is no need to break this for people even if the plugin is orphaned…

Regards

Tim

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