[Qgis-psc] Requiring adequate plugin descriptions

[ElPaso]

Il 22/05/2017 21:53, Richard Duivenvoorde ha scritto:
> On 22-05-17 18:01, Tim Sutton wrote:
>> Hi (mainly Paolo)
>>
>>
>> Just looking at the new plugin approved:
>>
>> http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/qdraw/
>>
>> I wonder if we should not require / strongly request that plugin authors
>> provide a detailed description of their plugins so that a user wanting
>> to choose a plugin from the repo knows what they will get. From the
>> above plugin description (while it may be a great plugin), it is not
>> really obvious what you will get when you install it. Perhaps a
>> screenshot with each would be nice too....
> Yes, I've been thinking about that too...
>
> What about forcing to answer 2 questions in the description in > 50
> words or so..:
> - what does this plugin do
> - which problem does this plugin solve for me
> (or ... whatever better guiding questions people can come up with).

Description is in metadata, we can add a validator to check for length 
but we cannot turn it into an interactive process.


> Another thing I would like to make better in plugins in general, is that
> they plugins should make use of QgsNetworkAccessManager instead of home
> brew urllib2/requests/.... solutions, which most of the times do not
> make use of proxy settings (and machinery there is already in Qt to make
> sure that a kerberos-identification-proxy is working ok..). I've seen in
> several bigger QGIS-install that this was giving problems as some
> plugins worked and some of them not.


totally agreed with this: moreover there is no support for QGIS 
authentication system in stock python libraries.

In Boundless we started using a small wrapper around 
QgsNetworkAccessManager that mocks httplib2, I think that it should be 
part of core QGIS python utils, with a (still to be developed) 
"requests" replacement.

You can find it in this repo: 
https://github.com/boundlessgeo/lib-qgis-commons/blob/master/qgiscommons/networkaccessmanager.py



Cheers

-- 
Alessandro Pasotti
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