[Qgis-psc] Plugin Repository Policy

[ElPaso]

Il 21/11/2016 15:25, Matthias Kuhn ha scritto:
> 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)?


A trusted user is a user that has auto-approval permissions, the "only" 
new thing since Girona is that this information was exposed in the 
plugins.xml response and it's now available in plugin manager.


Cheers.

-- 
Alessandro Pasotti
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