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

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Wed, Sep 9, 2026 at 12:31 PM Greg Troxel via QGIS-Developer <
qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

Ok this is probably something for a different thread. Lova and I have been
working on the plugin platform to provide more information about the
plugins and the rights they assume from you. Lets take it over to a new
thread if you want to chat about this, but my intention is first to build
tooling to let us tag plugins with things like "Requires Subscription",
"Made predominatly using an LLD", "Uses networking calls" etc. and first
start with a self reporting system so that users can decide if they are
happy with the grants that a plugin asks of them.

T



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*Tim Sutton*
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