[QGIS-Developer] Experimental plugin flag, yes/no or True/False?

Raymond Nijssen r.nijssen at terglobo.nl
Wed Feb 12 23:23:09 PST 2025


Yesterday I uploaded a new plugin and I set the experimental flag in the 
metadata.txt to True, as it should be according to the documentation here:

https://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/pyqgis_developer_cookbook/plugins/plugins.html#id4

(I mean the paragraph "16.1.2.1. metadata.txt" but the link doesn't 
exactly bring me there in my Browser.)

After uploading I did not check the experimental checkbox, as my 
metadata should override this anyway. (Why do both exist anyway??)

However, my plugin was not published as experimental, but as a normal 
plugin discoverable for everyone.

Now I remember that we used to have experimental=yes in the metadata, so 
the documentation might be wrong? Can anyone explain or check?

Same counts for other boolean fields: deprecated, server and 
hasProcessingProvider.

By the way, the new plugin website looks wonderful!! 🤩

Raymond


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