Re: Dubious scripts at vim.org

On Fri, 25 Nov 2011, Marc Weber wrote:

> Excerpts from Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO's message of Fri Nov 25 04:21:39 +0100 2011:
>> I'm administrator of http://vim-jp.org/ .
>> Have I better to notify to all? Then, I'll post entry about this.
> :) Great. That would be perfect. What to post?
>
> There should be enough English text to understand what the plugin is
> about.

Why? That seems like a pointless restriction. Just because a plugin
author is unable to write in English doesn't make the plugin somehow
unworthy of being on vim.org.

If a malicious plugin is published with only a description in Japanese,
and someone who doesn't speak Japanese downloads it and suffers damage
to their system, certainly the blame is on the uninformed user, not the
scripts archive.

And, in the more likely case that the plugin is useful, but the author
simply can't write in English, there's no reason to prevent the script's
presence on vim.org.

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Best,
Ben

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