[Owncloud] apps review and categories

[Frank Karlitschek]

On 12.10.2012, at 11:01, Jan-Christoph Borchardt <hey at jancborchardt.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Friday, October 12, 2012, Christian Reiner wrote: 
> 
> Clearly makes sense, however:
> Since this in effect means censorship (not meant in a bad way here) it appears
> to be very important to have a well defined, public catalog of aspects that
> apps must be conform with. Otherwise such a revision process might be regarded
> as arbitrariness. App developers must know about these rules beforehand.
> 
> This because that review process will almost certainly not only be used to
> block apps published to spread backdoors, but also to control general quality:
> security aspects like CSRF & XSS, desctructive behaviour towards the
> installation or other apps, missuse of features or gaps and so on.
> 
> 
> That’s why the approval process or the review mailing list should be public. Not necessarily for everyone to participate because that might create too much noise, but readable for everyone so there’s 0 confusion as to what happens. 


Exactly.
I think the review workgroup should come up with a documented process and rules here.

Frank