Webdongle wrote:Far better to catch them before the users see them and report them is it not ? And what about the commercial extensions ? Many users are not going to pay money just to check them. Again I offer to help.
All new submissions get checked using the JEDChecker tool which flags encrypted and base64 code. Commercial or non-Commercial has no relevance, every listing requires the dev to provide a copy of the extension to be checked.
Those old 1.5 listings that may have fallen through the cracks will be gone in a few months anyway when we drop 1.5 support. It's not like we're plagued with tons of encrypted/obfuscated coded extensions to warrant anyone looking though a million lines of code just to find a handful of listings.
Webdongle wrote:Not too sure about a 'wall of shame' ... would there be legal implications there ?
Very much so and is probably the main reason there isn't one. In the litigious world we live in it could very easily sink the ship financially just defending the truth.
Webdongle wrote:Perhaps the discussion about how to improve the developer summary page should be discussed in the forum now. Because "will happen" may be too late for everyone to input on the discussion ... especially if the JED team is secretly discussing it now.
If you want to start that discussion by all means go for it. Right now it's not under discussion within the team and won't be for awhile. We're working on getting to 3.0, which will take some time. We're working on the new review system that will be blog posted soon and the ToS revision that was posted in the forum.
The tinfoil hats can be stowed, there are no secrets with anything we're trying to get accomplished. We come up with a plan for something, present it to the community for feedback, make adjustments and implement it. Everyone get's plenty of time to offer input.