[Qgis-user] value tool plugin in 2 repos

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

On 01/29/2012 05:58 PM, Agustin Lobo wrote:
> Why are there some plugins (i.e. Value Tool) in 2 repos?
> http://pyqgis.org/repo/contributed (pointing to
> http://pyqgis.org/contributed/valuetool.zip)
> http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/plugins.xml (pointing to
> http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/valuetool/version/0.3.4/download/)
>
> Also, which is the rule by which a given plugin (I.e., Value Tool)
> becomes official?

Hi Agus,

the pyqgis.org repository is the 'old official repo', used by older 
version of QGIS.
the plugins.qgis.org is the 'new official repo', which is the default 
repo in current master (and 1.8 ?).
You can even add th 'new repo' as a repo in older QGIS version, and the 
two will then just be merged, giving you just the newest version of a 
given plugin from both official repo's.

We could not get in touch anymore with the original Valuetool plugin 
author, so I adopted and added On The Fly projection in the last version 
0.3.4. It is uploaded to both repo's, so if all went correct both repo's 
would give you the exact same latest  version: 0.3.4

Your question about by which rule a given plugin becomes 'offical' 
depends on your definition of 'official'. If you mean 'make it to become 
a so called 'core-plugin' which is into a default QGIS installation'. 
Then there has to be some consenscus between the QGIS devs about the 
quality of the plugin and the value of it for QGIS.
Or hardcore users must make a proposal for it, I think...

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde