[Qgis-developer] Python plugin repositories

[Gary Sherman]

All,
The "official" repository is ready for testing. It consists of an  
administrative interface to manage the upload of plugins and the xml  
generator.

The XML contains the following new tags, which can be ignored or used  
as desired:
<qgis_minimum_version/> - Minimum version of qgis required by the plugin
<uploaded_by/> - user id of admin that uploaded the plugin to the  
official repository
<create_date/> - date the plugin was initially uploaded
<update_date/> - date the plugin or its metadata was updated

Additional fields as suggested by some can be easily added but this  
should be sufficient to allow inclusion in the packaging effort.

The administrative interface is at: http://pyqgis.org/admin/official

The xml describing the plugins in the repository is at: http://pyqgis.org/repo/official

If you wish to test the admin interface by uploading or editing  
plugins you will need an account and admin privileges. Accounts from  
the previous repository were carried forward. Send me an email if you  
want admin access for testing purposes. At present the following users  
have admin:

Tim Sutton
Borys Jurgiel

Any admin can grant admin privileges to a user. Final determination as  
to who gets admin privileges at release time is pending further  
discussion.

There is an XSL stylesheet to render http://pyqgis.org/admin/official  
in your browser. Please note that neither this or the admin interface  
is meant to be and end user interface. Users should interact with the  
repository through the plugin installer. Future work on a  
"presentation" layer for the XML is under consideration.

The interface for the user- contributed plugins is not ready yet but  
will be found at http://pyqgis.org/admin/contributed.

The XML for the contributed plugins will be generated by http://pyqgis.org/repo/contributed 
.

Please test and report problems to me.

Thanks,
-gary

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