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12/12/2014 12:08:01 PM (10 years ago)
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senlin
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  • Ticket #30337, comment 29

    initial v1  
    44The problem is that many plugin authors cannot be bothered changing 1 or 2 digits in their readme.txt file and upload that to the repo. Even though they get a personalised email to ask them to do just that.
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    6 Let that be an additional drive for plugin authors to do that then; that is updating the readme.txt file to show that the plugin is tested up to the newest version.
     6Let that be an additional ~~drive~~ incentive for plugin authors to do that then; that is updating the readme.txt file to show that the plugin is tested up to the newest version.
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    88Why would we accommodate "lazy" plugin developers (those who cannot be bothered updating the readme.txt file) and give the responsibility to the (beginning) user, having to gamble whether or not a plugin works or doesn't really work?