[Qgis-psc] Plugin management: one step forward

[Paolo Cavallini]

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"
> ** 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")
> ** 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
> ** 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
> 
> * 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)

Addendum: make more evident on http://plugins.qgis.org/ that all plugins
must have a GPL2 licence

> * 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.
> 
> Comments and help welcome.
> All the best.
> 


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