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<p>Ho all,</p>
<p>I agree on this interpretation.</p>
<p>All the best.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/26/2018 08:49 PM, Martin Isenburg
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">Hu,
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<div dir="auto">Having just added a new plugin [1] today marked
"experimental" my expectation was that I would use this <span
style="font-family:sans-serif">"experimental" </span>flag
for my first one or two or three versions until I am sure it
works for others as well and until all the initial kinks of a
first time plugin submission are ironed out. I had the
expectation that it would signal to the users that this is a
new effort and that it may take a few more updates to find and
fix all the bugs. Since doing this initial experimental<span
style="font-family:sans-serif"> </span>release this
afternoon, for example, I've created already a newer version
that I was intending to submit soon.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Hence maybe a two week time limit for plugins to
remain <span style="font-family:sans-serif">experimental </span>would
be a useful way to limit the number of <span
style="font-family:sans-serif">experimental plugins to those
newly submitted or currently under active development and
kick out those that are idle in their experimental status.</span></div>
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<div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">Regards
from Zanzibar,</span></div>
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<div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">Martin</span></div>
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<div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">[1] </span><font
face="sans-serif"><a
href="http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/LAStools/"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/LAStools/</a></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Aug 26, 2018, 21:11 Borys Jurgiel <<a
href="mailto:lists@borysjurgiel.pl" target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true">lists@borysjurgiel.pl</a>>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Lists,<br>
<br>
Before I make a QEP I'd like to know your general thoughts.<br>
<br>
After I removed the deprecated plugins filter from the Plugin
manager (and <br>
make them always visible) [1], Alex suggested doing the same
with the <br>
Experimental status.<br>
<br>
Initially it was designed for two cases: to mark a whole
plugin as <br>
experimental, and to just mark the recent version (so a kind
of beta). Both <br>
cases seem to be popular among authors: at the moment we have
215 plugins for <br>
master, from which ~40 are experimental only and ~20 are in
both versions.<br>
<br>
However, I'm not sure if it makes much sense nowadays.
Releasing 'stable' and <br>
'experimental' versions seems a bit overscaled to me. And
there is a simpler <br>
solution: If the recent version is buggy, users can just
download the last <br>
working one from the repo and install from zip. The former
case, when the <br>
whole plugin is experimental, seems to be often misused:
authors can use it to <br>
hide some specialised of localised plugisn from majority of
users. In fact <br>
even I committed such clear misuse, marking the Plugin
Reloader as <br>
experimental just to not clutter the list for normal users...
Another reason <br>
could be a shyness. But again, we have the rating stars now
and don't need to <br>
rely on the author's shyness anymore.<br>
<br>
So... Do you see important reasons to keep this tag? Maybe we
should <br>
completely drop it? Or just remove the option to hide them
from manager, <br>
leaving the flask icon on the plugin details page?<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Borys<br>
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[1] <a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/7713"
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moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/7713</a><br>
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