[Vtigercrm-developers] Extensions Store Guidelines

[Satish Dvnk]

Hi,

Sorry for the inconvenience, I overlooked to reject PDF Maker older
version. Now I have rejected and could you please check again.


*regards,Satish.Dvnk*

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Conrado Maggi <comaggi at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I agree with matus, the criteria to approved extensions is so subjective
> and takes so long that I complete abandoned the idea of adding anything new.
>
> The entire process is complete broken
>
> In my case I have some extensions rejected because of the link to my site,
> and other rejected because no demo link. Now you have an example with links
> to their site
>
> Even a simple change like removing a link from the description takes weeks
> to be reviewed
>
> In my personal opinion, guidelines are not equally apply to all vendors.
>
>  Vtiger need to decide whether make this more transparent and
> straightforward  process  or close down the marketplace
>
> Regards
> Conrado
>
>
>
>
>
> El El mié, 6 dic 2017 a las 11:26, IT-Solutions4You <info at its4you.sk>
> escribió:
>
>> Thanks Alan,
>>
>> the biggest problem for us is, that some clients contact our support
>> team and they have other PDF Maker extension. It's really hard to
>> explain why there are 2 extensions with the same name in oficial vtiger
>> Marketplace. And yes, the extension ist still published.
>>
>> About Links and Description. For us it was not allowed to write any
>> Links to demo or company name because the publisher is visible in the
>> right side of marketplace page. In Smackcoders marketplace there are
>> many links and many information about company.
>>
>> I really don't understand this, why we are so banned.
>>
>>
>> Matus
>>
>> Dňa 5. 12. 2017 o 19:31 Alan Lord napísal(a):
>> > vtiger devs - that sucks.
>> >
>> > IMHO Smackcoders are leaches. As far as I can tell they give little to
>> > nothing back to the community.
>> >
>> > We have had a few customers use some of their extensions in the past
>> > (ones that are encrypted with ioncube and sold directly, not on the
>> > Marketplace) and our customers had many problems with poor quality and
>> > poor support from them.
>> >
>> > When did Smackcoders produce a product called PDF Maker? (Marketplace ID
>> > = 359)
>> >
>> > When did IT Solutions produce PDFMaker? (Marketplace ID = 14)
>> >
>> >
>> > And since when are demo links a problem? In fact, yesterday you wouldn't
>> > accept one of our extensions because there was *NO* link to a demo???
>> >
>> >
>> > I really think you guys need to get your priorities right.
>> >
>> > I am in full support of Matus here.
>> >
>> > Al
>> >
>> > On 05/12/17 11:41, IT-Solutions4You wrote:
>> >> Dear vtiger Team,
>> >> many times we have big issue and time delay for publishing vtiger
>> >> extension thru marketplace. Currently I see in your Marketplace
>> >> extension which broke more Guidelines.
>> >>
>> >> PDF Maker
>> >> https://marketplace.vtiger.com/extensions?id=359
>> >>
>> >> 1. Naming Guidelines
>> >> 1.4 Extension name and identifier should be have unique short prefix
>> >> that avoids collision with other extensions published.
>> >>
>> >> There is currently PDF Maker extension in Marketplace so I think this
>> >> name totally avoids collision with other extensions published
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> 4. Acceptance
>> >> 4.5 Extensions should not copy the functionality and UI of other
>> >> extensions or services.
>> >>
>> >> This is a full copy of our extension ;-). Anyway I understand it but
>> >> please with another name.
>> >>
>> >> 6. Extension Description
>> >> 6.3 Description should not have any links to external pages, nor
>> >> advertise any other products or services
>> >>
>> >> You don't publiseh our extensions because of links to our page minimal
>> >> 10 times (not demo link was allowed). Now in this extension there is a
>> >> lot of links to external pages. See how our Description looks:
>> >> https://marketplace.vtiger.com/extensions?id=14 and compare it.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> We are really very disappointed about this situation. Because we feel
>> >> to be deceived. Many of our extensions cann't be published for a small
>> >> link to our demo and on the other side another company can write what
>> >> it wants ?
>> >>
>> >> Matus
>> >> ITS4You
>> >>
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