Changes to QGIS plugin metadata

06.10.2012 14:09 ·  GIS  ·  qgis, plugins

QGIS plugin developers should note that it was decided at the hackfest to make changes to the plugin metadata. Namely:

• added mandatory author field
• added mandatory email field
• the authorName field is declared deprecated and is ignored when parsing metadata

The new fields must be present in both the __init__.py file and the metadata.txt file. The purpose of this change is to separate the actual author of the plugin from the plugin maintainer. For plugins already uploaded to the repository, these metadata fields will be filled in automatically using information from LDAP, but for all new plugins, these fields should be set by the developer.

The changes are effective as of today.