[QGIS-Developer] Plugin authors, email confirmation, Plugins list

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

Thanks for the prompt answer Lova :-)

Ah, I thought this was maybe part of the 'security'-scan for plugins, from that comes my question.

And about the ordering, I meant the plugin manager in QGIS, not so much the plugins.qgis.org website. Sorry for the confusion.
Not sure IF the plugins manager has information to change the order based on the options I mentioned though...

Thanks for all your work!!

Richard

On 6/10/26 14:20, Lova Andriarimalala wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> Thanks for raising this.
> 
>     Any plans to do some communication around this? As I think we will remove or hide the plugins with unconfirmed mail addresses, I'm afraid people will miss some of the plugins.
> 
> 
> As raised many times in some PRs and changes, feedback was given about effectively communicating any upcoming changes on the plugin repository. So, the first step is to confirm that the email address provided by a plugin author in the metadata.txt is responsive according to the state on the plugin's upload page (https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/add/ <https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/add/>).
> If there's any plan to remove or hide plugins with unconfirmed mail addresses, I think we need to always try to communicate them in some other way (on the repository of the plugin, for example).
> 
>     Another thing I want to bring up: having so many plugins now, would it be an idea to order the list based on: the number of stars, of number of downloads? Then at least plugins which earned some credits will be most viewable, instead of handy authors naming there plugins so that they appear upfront :-)
> 
> 
> I think this categorised list already exists, but maybe we could bring them on the upper level? So we would have "Popular plugins" or "Most downloaded" plugins instead of "All plugins" on the top bar and accessible from the "Explore" link.
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> On Wed, 10 Jun 2026 at 14:45, Richard Duivenvoorde via QGIS-Developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>> wrote:
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>     Personally I received a question from QGIS.org to confirm the email address(es) I use for my plugins.
> 
>     As one of the mail admins, I receive a lot of 'no replies' from others. Because the person does not work there anymore or changed mail etc etc.
> 
>     Any plans to do some communication around this? As I think we will remove or hide the plugins with unconfirmed mail addresses, I'm afraid people will miss some of the plugins.
>     But also I would have missed this mail if not receiving all the 'returned' mails... :-)
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> 
>     Another thing I want to bring up: having so many plugins now, would it be an idea to order the list based on: the number of stars, of number of downloads? Then at least plugins which earned some credits will be most viewable, instead of handy authors naming there plugins so that they appear upfront :-)
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>     Regards,
> 
>     Richard Duivenvoorde
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