[Qgis-developer] Preparing for the release announcement - plugin manager site

[Chris Crook]

Hi 
 
The repository looks good, but I couldn't upload the plugin - it failed with the message
 
    "File upload must be a valid QGIS Python plugin compressed archive. Cannot find valid metadata in VectorFieldRenderer/__init__.py"

I suspect that this is because my __init__.py is structured as 

   from Plugin import Plugin

   def name():
       return Plugin.LongName
 
   ...

rather than just being specified as 

   def name():
       return "VectorFieldRenderer"

Is there a document which describes how a plugin needs to be coded to be uploadable to the repository? 

Also some while ago I proposed a convention of putting plugin documentation in an index.html file in the plugin directory (which is now supported by the showPluginHelp function in utils.py).  I wonder if it would be good provide access to this from the plugin repository (ie make it available for viewing if it is included in the zip file).

Also I'm wondering how to specify plugin tags?

Thanks
Chris



________________________________

	From: Alessandro Pasotti [mailto:apasotti at gmail.com] 
	Sent: Tuesday, 14 June 2011 6:06 p.m.
	To: Chris Crook
	Cc: Tim Sutton; qgis-developer
	Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Preparing for the release announcement - plugin manager site
	
	
	2011/6/13 Chris Crook <ccrook at linz.govt.nz>
	

		Just wondering how the new plugins repository relates to the existing user contributed plugins repo.
		
		Should we move plugins to the new one, and if so should we delete them from the existing repository, or is it fine to have two versions of the same plugin?
		



	Hi,
	
	please copy or move your plugins to the new site (we are actively working on the development of the new site) and file a ticket on http://hub.qgis.org/projects/qgis-django/issues if you find any issue.
	
	Please notice that if you are not a staff or "trusted" user your plugins will not be immediately published and a notification email will be sent to all staff members.
	
	Once a staff member will flag you as "trusted" you will be able to publish your plugins.
	
	The new site also supports:
	
	* plugins icons
	* tags classification (will be available in QGIS desktop)
	* revisions (experimental  and stable)
	
	
	--
	Alessandro Pasotti
	w3:   www.itopen.it
	

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