Plugin repository: Plugin doesn’t get approved

I’ve seen a few threads about this problem, it seems to be mostly plugin authors who are noticing it, but as a WP User, I also want to know whether the /extend (plugins site) is working?

At least to know when it will be updated again, for the benefit of all

I’m currently experiencing the same problem. I have two plugins listed as waiting. There are TONS of plugins already on the system, so they must have been approved somehow or at some point. I’ll chase this on the wp-hackers mailing list.

Same problem! More than a week and waiting.
The updating of existing posts works fine but new ones are blocked waiting for approval.

Not very nice

ditto here. plugin approval pending for more than a week. not the end of the world, i know, but surprising nonetheless.

1 month ago and counting……..

I have also experienced some oddness with waiting for WordPress approval for plugins… I submitted my plugin to WordPress/extend/plugins/add/ over a week ago and heard nothing… I started wondering if they just needed more information, so i resubmitted the plugin as [my-plugin-name]-re-requested with a detailed account of what the plugin was about along with a note that I was re-requesting it.

Later that day, /extend/plugins/add/ showed that my plugin had been accepted and I should receive an email within an hour… a day later and no email… so I rechecked /extend/plugins/add/ and saw that the plugins had resorted back to waiting approval… but thats not all, my extend profile page started showing mySQL errors (which I then promptly reported).

3 days later, I get an email saying:

Your plugin hosting request has been aproved.
Within one hour, you will have access to your SVN repository

Unfortunately, this was for the [my-plugin-name]-re-requested (do they not read the description of my plugin (required))?

So feeling very disheartened at this point, I attempted to access the SVN repository… It does not exist (7 hours later) and my pending requests for plugins have now dissapeared.

I have always liked WordPress and currently use it as a backend for 10 sites, this whole process has left me feeling quite left out of the so called WordPress community!

I think WordPress should make a better effort to email the plugin submitters as their current seemingly underhanded approach disheartens new coders and more mature coders alike.

As a mature coder, I feel as if I have been shunned and it now feels quite pointless continuing any work on my project (of which there are currently 2 developers).

I would definitely feel more positive if at least I had an email stating:
“We appreciate your efforts but unfortunately are unable to host your plugin, please feel free to host the plugin on your own site – maybe try again with any other plugin ideas you have soon. keep up the good work!”

But I guess never knowing is currently the preferred method!!

I submitted a request yesterday.
I hope someone will do something about this.