[Qgis-psc] Plugin Repository Policy

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hi Paolo

On 11/21/2016 03:06 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Il 19/11/2016 21:29, Paolo Cavallini ha scritto:
>> Il 19 novembre 2016 20:08:37 CET, Trevor Wiens <tsw.web at gmail.com> ha
>> scritto:
> 
>> I think we can fix this.
> 
> Hi all,
> elaborating on this:
> * one of the faces of the problem is that all the plugin management is
> voluntary, so we have to do it according to the availability of time;
> nonetheless, I believe the average time of approval is under 2 days,
> which seems reasonable to me

Sounds fair enough.
And at the same time: thank you for continuously taking care!

> * generally speaking, the approval process looks pretty successful to
> me: it is relatively sleek, and it allowed to avoid duplications,
> merging similar plugins, and generally improving their quality

Agreed, I'd say it's pragmatic and a good ratio between complexity and
result.

> * one issue I have is that I get notifications of new plugins, but not
> of submission of new versions, so in more busy periods this can cause a
> few days of delay; perhaps we should improve that; in the meantime, you
> can always ping me in case of urgent stuff.
> I'm pretty confident this can fix your issues. In case this proves
> wrong, please apply for trusted status, and the PSC will decide on that.

I'm not sure I completely understand all classes of plugins/devs. I
think there was a possibility for automatic approval even before the
trusted authors system. Have the two statuses been merged
(trusted/auto-approval)?
I wonder if we should integrate a short notice in the plugin maintainer
panel on how to proceed to become a trusted author (i.e. how to contact
the PSC and what information is required. Or even formalized
requirements already.)

All the best, and thanks for raising this.