[Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] Better tags for plugins

[Jonathan Moules]

Hi Paulo,
Surely this can be "enforced" by having requirements for acceptance on the official plugin repository. If a plugin doesn't fulfil all the requirements, it doesn't get included.

Possible requirements (to give an idea):
- Brief description of plugin,
- Detailed explanation of plugin.
- "How to use" documentation.
- Useful, consistent tags.
- Homepage/tracker/repository links (that work and go somewhere relevant).
- Author
- Changelog
- Date of last plugin release
- Supported QGIS Versions

This may (will) mean fewer plugins, however the plugins that don't get included would be ones with poor user documentation. Most plugins fail quite badly at making it clear what they do, let alone how to use them. That lot wouldn't take much more than half an hour to do for any given plugin (with only a few very-complex exceptions) and would make plugins much more useable.

Cheers,
Jonathan


-----Original Message-----
From: qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Paolo Cavallini
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 1:12 PM
To: Lynton Cox
Cc: qgis-user; qgis-developer
Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] Better tags for plugins

Hi Lynton,

Il 19/02/2015 19:21, Lynton Cox ha scritto:
> Please don't forget the newbies need to know exactly what plugins
> might be used for - some have hardly any description. Once out of the
> basic QGIS manual finding one's way around isnt that easy. Many
> amateurs in areas such as local studies realise how useful GIS but see
> that jargon and acronyms can fog the path.

Yes, the About is often neglected. I invite plugin authors to add a reasonable description, but I cannot enforce this.
A very good idea would be for the user to write a short note and add it to a feature request, through the plugin bugtracker; even better, this could be added as a Pull Request on the plugin repository.
All the best, and thanks.

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