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<p>Hi Tim,</p>
<p>We already have a problem managing plugins.<br>
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<p>The situation will be no better in the future. My suggestion is
not to add an additional problem, just to solve the current one. I
understand your point and opening comments can be a problem. But
can also add valuable information about the plugins. It is a
tradeoff.<br>
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<p>I would allow comments from authenticated users [1], without any
moderation. The purpose is to get evaluations and feedback from
several users, not from just one user. It works well, as far as I
know, at Wordpress as I mentiones, and many more software with
plugins. </p>
<p>It makes sense to be open text, to raise questions, security and
privacy issues and point out features not available in any
predefined list of options.</p>
<p>Maybe in the future we can discuss this again, when we have 10k
plugins ;-)<span class="num_items"><br>
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<p>Best regards,</p>
<p>Jorge</p>
<p>[1] Quote from GNOME Extensions: "Unfortunately, to help prevent
spam, we require that you <a href="https://extensions.gnome.org/accounts/login/">log in to
GNOME Shell Extensions</a> in order to post a comment or report
an error. You understand, right?" </p>
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<p>Hi Admire,</p>
<p>Thank you for helping with the plugins.</p>
<p>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: <br>
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<p>- Duplication of functionality. Plugin functionality
already exists in QGIS.</p>
<p>- Plugins containing binaries (and related problems)</p>
<p>- Plugins which are a fork of an existing plugin</p>
<p>- Etc<br>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>Basically, we already almost the same data as wordpress
about plugins, but we miss user's reviews. User's
reviews can add value.<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">My
concern here would be that we create a new problem: Having
to moderate the comments. Maybe we could use a simple
like/dislike and/or predefined lists of comments (e..g
"Works great", "Doesnt work on Linux", "Doesnt work on
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