[QGIS-Developer] Maintainance of QGIS Plugin repository

[Admire Nyakudya]

Hi All

I help out in the approval process of QGIS plugins. There are various 
issues that are listed https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Django/issues to 
streamline the approval process of plugins.

Over the years there has been a steady increase in plugins that are not 
approved <https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/unapproved/>. This is due to 
a number of reasons:

* Duplication of functionality. Plugin functionality already exists in QGIS.

* Plugin authors not willing to address issues raised during the 
approval process.

* Plugins containing binaries (Not really sure about the policy here).

* Plugins which are a fork of an existing plugin and then they get 
renamed to something else without permission from the original author or 
the author is no longer interested i.e 
https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/active_fire2/.

* Old plugins that still use the old architecture i.e Python2.

Could we either implement the following changes to maintain/cleanup the 
plugin repository.

* Old plugins that were never approved because the author did not care 
to resolve issues flagged be deleted from the repository i.e 
https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/ban_adresse_locator/

* Plugins that have vague names and offer functionality that is 
ambiguious i.e https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/upload/ be deleted.

* We could automate the deletion of plugins where feedback has been 
received but the author hasn't done any corrective measure maybe after a 
month or couple of months.

* Automatically flag the plugins which are not approved to Deprecated 
after some time.

I think the above and other recommendations will encourage people to use 
the plugin repository properly as currently it feels like a dumping ground.


On a side note: What is the policy for plugin names. I know it is up to 
the author to give his plugin a suitable name but something like 
https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/transfer_layerfilegdb_to_geopackage/#plugin-versions 
looks like a description rather than a name.

Regards

Adire

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