[QGIS-Developer] Rating abuse issue on the QGIS Plugins Website

[Greg Troxel]

Tim Sutton via QGIS-Developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> writes:

> For those curious about knowing if their plugin is being well received by
> their users, we will move the responsibility for this to you to build
> something into your plugin itself.

I hope it will be clear that this can include a "push this button to
report X", but that any kind of phone-home code that reports usage
without an explicit user action is prohibited and grounds for immediate
removal.

I'm actually saying this instead of assuming it, because I remember a
plugin author, within the last few years, suggesting that it was ok for
their plugin to not only phone home that it was in use, but to send
viewport coordinates to report the area of interest.