[Owncloud] apps review and categories

[Frank Karlitschek]

On 12.10.2012, at 11:28, Christian Reiner <foss at christian-reiner.info> wrote:

> Hello, 
> 
>>> [...]
>>>> Approval workflow:
>>> 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.
>>> [...]
> 
>> I disagree that this has anything to do with censorship. Everybody can
>> publish apps in the repo, other websites or somewhere else. Installation is
>> super easy by just putting it in the the apps folder of your ownCloud. No
>> one is censoring anything here. Please don´t confuse this with the way
>> others like Apple is doing this. The only thing that we do is to make sure
>> that the Apps that can be installed and executed with one click by random
>> users have QA.
> 
> I am sorry if I hurt any feelings by using the term 'censorship'. That 
> certainly was not my intention. That's why I made the notion that this term is 
> not meant in a bad way. 
> I do not want to fight over a term, a word. In effect a group of people judges 
> if something created by someone else is published or held back. I don't know 
> how else to call that... I absolutely agree that this is done in best 
> intentions and I absolutely support the installation of such process. I just 
> wanted to emphasize the importance of transparency _because_ this might be 
> regarded as censorship otherwise. That's all. 
> 
> And I am pretty sure that I do not confuse this process with Apples politics. 


Hehe. It´s all fine. And it was totally expected that someone brings up the term "consorship". ;-)
I´m still not really sure if this term fits here. In this definition everybody who runs a website does censor content by not allowing random people to publish on it. And the fact that we don't include broken apps in our releases could also considered consorship. 
So I´m not sure this is the right word here :-)

All we will do is to check that the apps that come from our website work and don´t contain backdoors. That´s the same we already do with our release tars.
We had a lot of discussion about that, to do it in the right way and I think this is fair. :-)


Frank