[Qgis-psc] MIgration to Py3: contacting plugin authors?

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>
wrote:

> Il 10/11/2015 09:58, Tim Sutton ha scritto:
>
> > I think based on the discussion we should not contact them. We can post
> > to the blog and mailing lists and if they receive it they receive it, if
> > they don't they don't. Not ideal but its our mistake for not making
> > clear our intention of using emails for occasional notifications. Lets
> > fix that and ask any new uploaders to give explicit permission so we
> > don't have this situation in the future.
>
> OK, thanks for clarifying. BTW, what is the limit? I routinely contact
> authors before accepting their plugin: does this violate something?
>

​To be honest I don't know and I think the objections are overly extreme,
but I think we should be conservative and explicitly require plugin
submitters to agree to being contacted.​

​Regards

Tim​



>
> All the best.
> --
> Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
> QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html
>



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