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

[Tom Chadwin]

Hello all

Sorry for opening this can of worms, and thanks to all of you for very kind
words. But obviously, let's move on from the personal to the general point,
not least to stop my looking as though I was fishing for compliments. I very
much was not.


Nyall Dawson wrote
>> possibly
>> reinforces the (otherwise seldom apparent) clique nature of devs in
>> general
>> and the QGIS core devs in particular...
> 
> To begin: there's obviously no secret agenda or deliberate 'inner
> circle' here, so any closed nature of the community has been an
> accidental organic process vs a deliberate decision.

100%. Compared to other projects to which I've contributed, this is an
incredibly welcoming, supportive, and friendly community. I said "otherwise
seldom apparent" deliberately. I could probably have said "otherwise never
apparent". I could even broaden this out to the whole geo community - both
Leaflet and, back in the day, MGOS devs have always welcomed tentative and
initially nervous contributions from hobbyists.


Nyall Dawson wrote
> So, if you feel comfortable doing this, can you (or any others who
> have also felt this way) give some pointers on how we can 'break' this
> and becoming a more welcoming community?

So in that light, my point just refers to this issue. Again, I knew that the
issue I've raised was unintentional, so simply tweaking this process and
language will do the job.

Matthias and I discussed some possibilities off-list:

- label "core QGIS developer"
- label plugins which have testing/CI

I'll check back to see if I missed anything else. 

Thanks for running with this discussion. It should have a moderately simple
solution - just haven't quite found it yet. 

Thanks again

Tom




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