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

[Luigi Pirelli]

+1 to thrusted author

side +1 to trust Tom... can we use the same OSGeo charters memeber
mechanism to nominate thrusted authors?
Luigi Pirelli

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On 8 September 2017 at 13:45, Matthias Kuhn <matthias at opengis.ch> wrote:
> 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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