[Qgis-psc] Plugin management: one step forward

[Luigi Pirelli]

just started the first twitter reactions to the reduction of upload
rights in the plugin repo, Probably would help a blog post with the
content of the first mail of this thread.

regards

Luigi Pirelli

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On 9 June 2016 at 11:18, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
> Hi all,
> an update on this issue:
>
> Il 27/05/2016 19:32, Paolo Cavallini ha scritto:
>> Il 27/05/2016 19:21, Paolo Cavallini ha scritto:
>>> * to make our user safer, we decided to
>>> ** Plugin manager: add a bigger warning "Use at your own risk"
>
> done, thanks Alex Bruy
>
>>> ** Plugin manager: make obvious to users (e.g. with a bold green tick)
>>> which plugins are trusted; avoid any pejorative term for others (e.g.
>>> "Untrusted")
>
> done, thanks Alex Bruy
>
>>> ** Pugin website: trust only core developers and those we can trust
>>> personally
>>> ** Send an email, as kind as possible, to all others, explaining the
>>> reason why their trust has been removed
>
> I'm going to do this now; thanks Alessandro Pasotti for help, and PSC
> for support
>
>>> ** Plugin website: make a better use of the tag "Featured", involving
>>> the community to select the ones to include, and keep the list dynamic
>>> and updated
>>> ** Plugin manager: add an option "Show only featured plugins", ON by default
>
> done, thanks Alex Bruy
>
>>> * we also decided to start enforcing our licence, by preparing a
>>> standard letter to those violating it (e.g. publishing a plugin with a
>>> non GPL compatible licence)
>
> process started now, thanks Tim for help writing the letter
>
>> Addendum: make more evident on http://plugins.qgis.org/ that all plugins
>> must have a GPL2 licence
>
> done
>
>>> * there are still plugins (mostly old ones) without a proper code repo
>>> available; we can leave them for now, aiming to clean the situation when
>>> migrating to Python3.
>
> I believe this approach improves the robustness of our infrastucture,
> and the reliability of the project as a whole.
> As always, suggestions welcome.
>
> All the best.
> --
> Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
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