What is the meaning of the green check marks on the upgrade page?

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I’ve noticed in my own Discourse installation that some weeks ago green checkmarks started to appear on the left of most of the entries on the upgrade page:

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I did a search here and also tried to hover over the icons. Still, I don’t understand what they mean.

What makes me wonder is:

  • The main Discourse entry never has a green check mark, no matter whether up-to-date or not.
  • The other items always have a green check mark, no matter whether up-to-date or not.

My question:

What is the meaning of the green check marks on the upgrade page?

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Those green checks mean that the plugin is an official plugin maintained by Discourse

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Thanks. Maybe a mouse hover tooltip could be useful?

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There should definitely be a tooltip there. Will add it.

Wait, it already has a tooltip…

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I couldn’t figure out what the check meant either. It would be more obvious if the glyph could be the discourse logo.

(and I didn’t notice the hover either)

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I figured it was for official, but hovering over for a tooltip doesn’t work - ALT tags (if I recall correctly) only show up if the image is broken

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Ok, it now has a title as well :wink:

https://github.com/discourse/docker_manager/commit/c5a371e4e45e8f59632e302d6513162a2cb5263b

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I just did an update and I’m not seeing a tooltip. When is Font Awesome going to add a Discourse icon?

Edit: I see them on the Plugin page. I was looking on the upgrade page.

(But I still find the check a confusing way to say “Official Discourse”.)

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That would be handy :wink:

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Since the Nice People at Font Awesome went to all that trouble, could you change that mysterious :white_check_mark: into a calming, satisfying, and reassuring :discourse:?

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That would need https://meta.discourse.org/t/updating-font-awesome-icons/19352/10

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That’s what I thought, and then I thought that since since I have :discourse: here that it could also be put on the plugins screen.

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The way that I read https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/lib/plugin/metadata.rb it looks like if someone forks an official plugin, or even has their own plugin with the same name, it’ll look official.

Am I right? Is this a problem?

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You are.

It’s just an indicator.

People could easily write a plugin that would overwrite the official? method to return true.

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