Plugin review guidelines

The full text is the Plugin Review Guidelines. This page sums it up.

The automatic screen

It runs on every version as you submit it, and a failure refuses the submission with the reason:

• a valid manifest, with every site the plugin reaches named;
• a package of at most 5 MB, with readable code;
• every web address in the code is a site the manifest names;
• every structure the plugin ships passes Athanor's chemical safety screen;
• the listing passes the text filter and is complete, including a reason for each permission and a support contact.

What a reviewer checks

• Quality: it works and does what its listing says.
• Trust and safety: it never reads or changes a document without the user knowing, and uses the least data it can.
• Chemistry safety: nothing that helps make controlled substances or chemical weapons.
• Business: no advertising inside Athanor.
• Legal: a privacy policy whenever data leaves the user's computer.

The outcome is Approve, Request changes or Reject, with a note.

Updates

A version that only changes code goes live once it passes the automatic screen, and is reviewed afterwards. A version that asks for a new permission waits for a person, and then for each user to agree to it.