[Qgis-developer] one email address for plugin approvers

[Olivier Dalang]

>
> Multiline descriptions in the metadata are allowed, newlines are not
> converted to BR in the HTML though...


Good to know ! Is it ok to use HTML then ? Does the same apply to the
changelog ? ...

The default metadata.txt file should be more explicit about how to format
the entries... A few days ago I added an "&" in the author fields (since we
were two authors), and the plugin wasn't downloadable anymore (it uploaded
well though).






2014-02-12 13:32 GMT+01:00 Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com>:

> 2014-02-12 13:20 GMT+01:00 Olivier Dalang <olivier.dalang at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi !
>>
>> -1 for making the homepage mandatory...
>> If it's only to display the plugin's help/readme information, we should
>> rather have the developpers create some help/readme file for each plugin,
>> which could be opened directly from within QGIS.
>> IMO that's much better than a link which opens in the browser, and which
>> most of the time will be either irrelevant (since no one will spend time to
>> make a homepage for a plugin), or a quite technical looking github readme
>> page, which precisely displays a readme.md/txt/html page.
>>
>> +1 for the tracker and the repository !
>>
>> On the same topic :
>>
>> I find the descriptions of the plugins often too synthetic to really know
>> what a plugin is good for.
>>
>> I'd say this comes from the fact that descriptions can be on one line
>> long in the metadata file.
>>
>> Having the ability to use multiple lines would be much better, and we'd
>> simply show the first line only in compact views (listings...).
>>
>>
>
> Multiline descriptions in the metadata are allowed, newlines are not
> converted to BR in the HTML though...
>
>
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