[Qgis-user] Official check of plugins on "official" repository?

[Agustin Lobo]

Thanks for the clarification,
> They are called featured plugins

Thus, the term is misleading. "featured" does not mean "certified".
In any case, the bottom issue is that plugins causing problems in QGIS
beyond the plugin itself, and in particular those just crashing QGIS
should not be entitled to be in the official repository or, at least,
required to keep the "experimental" tag.
In the absence of further information, the term "official" implies,
for the (naive?) user, a commitment to their functionality from the
QGIS steering committee.
I believe that the note in the QGIS plugins web portal;
"Plugins are developed by independent organizations and developers,
the QGIS organization does not take any responsibility for them."
is somehow conflicting with the term "official". And while all users
will read the term "official", very few will reach the aforementioned
note.
(perhaps this notice should also be in the QGIS plugins menu itself).

Hope this helps to keep QGIS to be seen as a stable and reliable tool.

Agus

On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 2:08 PM Alexandre Neto <senhor.neto at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Agustin,
>
>
> Due to the nature/diversity of QGIS third party plugins design there's no automatic review of the plugins. There's a manual review process to confirm that they comply with some rules [1], but nothing to test if the plugin does what it advertises or if in some situations may cause crashes.
>
> This being said, there are few plugins that have the qgis.org "certification". They are called featured plugins.
>
> Hope it helped
>
>
> [1] https://plugins.qgis.org/publish/
>
> A quarta, 15/11/2023, 07:16, Agustin Lobo via QGIS-User <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> escreveu:
>>
>> I am surprised that some plugins downloaded from the official qgis
>> repository cause problems in QGIS, sometimes even a crash.
>> In the R project, there is a review system that automatically checks
>> packages to be uploaded (and to remain) on the equivalent official
>> repository.
>> Is there an equivalent checking process for QGIS plugins? As a lot of
>> important GIS functionality in QGIS is provided by plugins, I think
>> this stability check would avoid a lot of user frustration.
>>
>> Agus
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