[Qgis-psc] Managing plugin queue

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

On 04-04-14 09:05, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Hi all.
> Slowly slowly, the queue of unapproved plugins is shortening, and new
> plugins are dealt with in a couple of days.

Cool. THANKS Paolo for doing this task!

> I need two info to proceed:
> * what to do if authors do not respond for several email? approving an
> unmaintained plugin does not seem very good, neither dropping it

Mmm, I would eventually drop those, IF nobody else wants to maintain them.
With Debian I received an email about so called 'abandoned packages',
looking for new maintainers.
We could do something like that: write an email to dev/user/community,
and ask if anybody wants to take over maintainership of the plugin.
If so: solved
If not: drop plugin (maybe we should have a new status for that in the
repo: 'abandoned': meaning approved in history, no maintainer so NOT
showing up in plugins.xml (and QGIS) but still to be found in
plugins.qgis.org?

> * I would suggest not accepting plugins without a code repo and a bug
> tracker: first, it would become very difficult to follow its development
> if these are missing; second, if an author do not have time for setting
> up a simple GH (or other) repo, this does not speak well for the plugin
> quality.

-1

I would not discourage junior/beginning plugin makers to make their
plugins available. So as long as they provide some email address and
maybe a download link for the latest code, that is fine with me.
IF such a plugin is successfull/wanted then a more experienced dev
should step up and move it to Github/Bitbucket or whatever together with
the original maintainer in my opinion.

Regards,

Richard