[Qgis-developer] Plugin [1102] AequilibraE approval notification.

[Matthias Kuhn]

On 12/19/2016 03:04 PM, Luigi Pirelli wrote:
> I also agree, pragmatic solution 1) leave to the user to trust. => a
> big orange message warning the user!
> 
> btw I would add some requirements for plugin devs. e.g list at least
> the following points:
> 
> 1) the reason to have compiled parts (I had to look for a foss4g
> presentation to knwow the reason)
> 2) the list of shared or executable (I casually discovered them)
> 3) the link to the source code (in the plugin or external)... I had to
> grep the code to understand that code was available.
> 4) guide to build. This can be optional, but I would trust more a user
> that expose how to reproduce the build.
> 5) checksums x plugin version
> 
> All these info can be contained in the plugin homepage in a standard
> way (template). In this way we don't have to add tags in metadata
> other than "BEWARE binary inside!"
> 
> opinions?
> Luigi Pirelli

This sounds very reasonable to me.

Thank you
Matthias