[QGIS-Developer] Improvement to the plugin manager's upgradeable plugins details

[Mathieu Pellerin]

If it's not too much trouble for whomever manages the plugins site, it
might be worth simply adding the changelog bit to plugins.xml and see the
size difference then.

I was initially worried but the more I think about it the more I get a
feeling it should be just fine.

On Sat, Mar 9, 2019, 7:14 PM Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> I like the idea, I'm just worried about the increased size of the XML on
> option A: we don't have any control over the changelog size (well, we could
> truncate the changelog if it's too long but I don't know if that makes much
> sense).
>
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 11:38 AM Mathieu Pellerin <nirvn.asia at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> While applying a couple of commits to QGIS' plugin manager, I would like
>> to fix a long-standing UX issue with it, namely that plugins that show a
>> newer version available do _not_ show the latest changelog but rather the
>> changelog of the currently installed plugin version.
>>
>> It'd much nicer, and exciting for users, to show what's new _prior to_
>> hitting the [ update plugin ] button.
>>
>> For that to happen, we'd need either: a/ add the changelog information in
>> the repository XML file fetched (i.e.
>> https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/plugins.xml?qgis=3.6), or b/ add a
>> method to fetch changelog strings from the repository site (for e.g.,
>> https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/changelog.xml?names=plugin1,plugin2,plugin3
>> ).
>>
>> Unless adding the short changelog to the repository XML adds too many
>> MBs, I'd vote for option A.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Mathieu
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