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

[Alexandre Neto]

Maybe some platform to report faulty plugins, so that the plugins team can
talk with the plugin developer and eventually mark the plugins as
experimental in that case.

I agree that that message would be nice to have in the plugin menu. Maybe
open a feature request for it?

Thanks for your suggestions.

A quinta, 16/11/2023, 19:34, Agustin Lobo <alobolistas at gmail.com> escreveu:

> Dear Alexandre,
> I understand the limitations of human resources. And my acknowledgment
> to those involved in the QGIS project.
> All I'm asking is a consistent terminology so that users are fully
> aware of the potential problems: the only "official" or
> fully tested plugins should be those which are now named "featured".
> And the notice "Plugins are developed by independent organizations and
> developers,
> the QGIS organization does not take any responsibility for them" (or
> similar), should be in QGIS Plugins/Manage and Install Plugins.
> I'm already very involved on reporting issues in the github systems of
> the plugins I use. Perhaps a system to report eventual problems caused
> by the plugins in QGIS
> could be considered so that QGIS users could use that information to
> decide whether to install a given plugin or not. The current situation
> in which installing or running a plugin can crash QGIS goes
> against QGIS being contemplated as a stable and reliable software.
> Hope QGIS developers find my comments useful.
> Best,
>
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 10:23 AM Alexandre Neto via QGIS-User
> <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Agustin,
> >
> > I understand your point and I understand the value of what you propose.
> Nevertheless, a full functionality check of each plugin would require human
> resources that the qgis.org project does not have.
> >
> > The meaning of oficial plugin repository comes from a time that there
> was no centralized place to search for plugins. You would need to find
> repositories scattered all over the internet and add it manually. At some
> point it was decided to centralise it as much as possible in one place.
> >
> > The only plugins that are under qqgis.org responsibility are the core
> plugins, the ones that come installed with QGIS.
> >
> > Obviously that, in an ideal world, all plugins would be highly tested
> before being allowed into the repository. But the small team responsible
> for accepting the plugins already struggle to do a "simple" requirements
> check, with all the new plugins and updates.
> >
> > Please consider to support the testing efforts. Make sure to report the
> issues to the respective plugin bug trackers. Consider supporting the
> developer's of the plugins you depend the most, so it becomes more stable
> and reliable.
> >
> > Alex Neto
> >
> > On Thu Nov 16, 2023, 08:23 AM GMT, Agustin Lobo wrote:
> >
> > 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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