<div dir="ltr">Greetings,<div><br></div><div>I'm trying to upload my first plugin to: <a href="http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/add/">http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/add/</a></div><div><br></div><div>I keep getting the following error: </div>
<div><span style="font-size:0.9rem;line-height:1.4rem;color:rgb(185,74,72);font-family:'Open Sans','Helvetica Neue',Ubuntu,Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:0.9rem;line-height:1.4rem;color:rgb(185,74,72);font-family:'Open Sans','Helvetica Neue',Ubuntu,Arial,sans-serif">There were errors reading plugin package (please check also your plugin's metadata). Package name must start with an ASCII letter and can contain ASCII letters, digits and the signs '-' and '_'.</span></div>
<div><font face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.399999618530273px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.399999618530273px">My package name is "DEMTools" and </span></font><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Open Sans','Helvetica Neue',Ubuntu,Arial,sans-serif">I've checked the plugin's metadata file, but everything looks to be in order. This error message doesn't give me a lot to go on and I've never uploaded a plugin before. Are there some common issues I should look for or is there some detailed guide to creating a plugin package for <b style="text-decoration:underline"><i>upload</i></b>. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Open Sans','Helvetica Neue',Ubuntu,Arial,sans-serif">(I don't need help with creating the plugin just uploading it to the Plugin Repository. I used Plugin Builder to create the plugin and it runs fine on my local machine.) </span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Open Sans','Helvetica Neue',Ubuntu,Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Open Sans','Helvetica Neue',Ubuntu,Arial,sans-serif">Thanks for any help you can offer,</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Open Sans','Helvetica Neue',Ubuntu,Arial,sans-serif">Kris</span></div></div>