[QGIS-Developer] Reword "Trusted Plugin" --> "Trusted Plugin Author"?

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hi Tom,

I understand this sentiment very well. Do you think formalizing the
process to become a "Trusted Author" and making it more transparent
would help here?

Your statement does not seems not to critizise the move of switching
trust from plugins to authors. But more the "in-or-out" in general.
Important here is, that the idea is to put more stress on the "in"
rather than the "out" (by saying "trusted author" rather than "untrusted
author"). If you have an idea how this can be made even more visible, I
think there's a good chance that we can mitigate unwanted side-effects
and potentially hard feelings of this better.

Sidnote:
I will immediately vote to make you a trusted author, we all very well
know the work you've put into qgis2web and close relations with the
community. While I think you should get the label anyway, I think
there's a different discussion you wanted to trigger here.

Matthias

On 09/08/2017 01:29 PM, Tom Chadwin wrote:
> So it's not that you don't trust my work, it's that you don't trust me?
> 
> As an untrusted plugin author, I should say that this makes little
> difference. While I 100% understand the rationale behind this process, it
> still feels like a bit of a slap in the face. Perhaps the use of the word
> "trust", be it applied to plugin or author, is too loaded for me. In fact,
> transferring the usage to individuals makes it more galling - it's one thing
> for the work I have done voluntarily over the past three or four years not
> to be trusted by the core devs, but it's quite another for me, personally,
> not to be trusted.
> 
> I of course understand that the inference is not that I and my work are not
> trusted. I simply worded that last sentence deliberately to make the point
> that this label, and its absence, seems arbitrary at best, possibly
> reinforces the (otherwise seldom apparent) clique nature of devs in general
> and the QGIS core devs in particular, and at worst is insulting.
> 
> Hope you understand - I feel the point had to be made.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> 
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