Feature #5236
Add an About field, and make it mandatory
| Status: | Feedback | Start Date: | 03/26/2012 | |
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| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | ||
| Assigned to: |  Alessandro Pasotti |
% Done: | 0% |
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| Category: | - | |||
| Target version: | - | |||
| Patch supplied: | No |
Description
It would be nice to have a short (<140 characters) title and a compulsory description, with the possibility to hit a 'more details' button in the plugin manager and see a paragraph.
The description should be added to the plugin's page.
The author should be notified with a message "Please add a description of your plugin, explaining its usage".
History
Updated by Paolo Cavallini about 1 year ago
- Subject changed from Make it compulsory a description to Make a plugin description compulsory
Updated by Gary Sherman about 1 year ago
- Assigned to set to Alessandro Pasotti
Updated by Alessandro Pasotti about 1 year ago
- Status changed from New to Feedback
Either I dont' understand or this is exactly how it is already (now): "description" field is required, mandatory (compulsory?) and is shown on the plugin page.
By clicking on "toggle descriptions" the user sees the longer description.
The only missing piece is a check for title length not exceeding the twitter length, now the maximum limit for the plugin title is 256.
Updated by Paolo Cavallini about 1 year ago
- Subject changed from Make a plugin description compulsory to Add an About field, and make it mandatory
Updated by Gary Sherman about 1 year ago
The problem is the "short" description does not provide enough information for a user to determine exactly what the plugin does. This information is needed so a decision can be made to install or not. A file included in the plugin package (mailing list has some discussion) that contains such information and that could be displayed both on this site and within the installer would help greatly.