[QGIS-Developer] Are there any real mandatory rules for publishing a plugin?

[regis at qgis.org]

Hi, 
I agree that our community repository is really large now and the world has changed. 
What should be the direction we should take according to you? 
Something like an official repo, with a real security triage, and a filter of really up to date and active tools? 

And besides this, community repositories, not activated by default ? 
Thanks for your ideas, user conference and community meeting is next week and a dedicated session would be wonderful
Cheers
Régis


On 30/09/2026 13:31, Nicolas Godet via QGIS-Developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I can’t agree more on the fact that the plugin repo has become a wild 
> jungle with less and less interest in digging into it to find an 
> innovative one.
> A few years ago, I spent a few minutes each week looking at each new 
> plugin (because there were only ten or so). Now, I don’t look at new 
> plugins anymore because there are too many of them and most of them are 
> a duplicate of another plugin or, even worse, of a core feature.
> 
> I think new rules should be put in place or at least a way to 
> distinguish good, community-approved plugins from the nonsense garbage 
> in the quest for likes for their LinkedIn post.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Nicolas
> 
> > Le 29 sept. 2026 à 17:45, Stefano Campus via QGIS-Developer <qgis- 
> > developer at lists.osgeo.org> a écrit :
> >
> > 
> > Good morning,
> > a few days ago, a plugin [1] was released that is a fork of an 
> > existing plugin which had been updated (without the original plugin 
> > author being notified) to QGIS 4.
> > The GitHub repository has issues disabled, so it is not possible to 
> > report bugs that are present.
> >
> > But shouldn’t it be mandatory to have issue reporting enabled?
> >
> > Furthermore, the proliferation of plugins makes it difficult to find 
> > the truly innovative ones.
> > So we see plugins that replicate core functions, perhaps giving them a 
> > more appealing user interface
> >
> > Where can I report this to the team that coordinates the plugins?
> > Do you think we should report these anomalies?
> >
> > Many thanks
> >
> > stefano
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/veogeo/go3streetview <https://github.com/ 
> > veogeo/go3streetview>
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