[Owncloud] apps review and categories

[Klaas Freitag]

On 12.10.2012 11:28, Christian Reiner wrote:

Hi,

> 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...
Maybe at worst "Elitist boy club behaviour" ;-). But its not. It's a 
good initiative to ensure safety and fun for the users.

The review workgroup will have an important and not easy role here. 
Beside just reviewing they also can help to fix not conforming apps.

I also agree that good written guidelines for this are needed, and even 
if they will grow and mature over time I think a first version should be 
there before we start to make that reality.

Also I think its important to clearly state what a passed review means 
for the users: Do we as a project take full responsibility for the app 
or not? I think we should not, it is still the responsibility of the 
user who enables an app, even if it passed the review. But an open word 
helps here.

Another great thing would be a script that performs checks for 
conforming, developed in the open. That can be plugin based so that the 
level of nagging can be adjusted. That helps the workgroups and the 
developer and if its easy enough to provide plugins this will nicely 
evolve over time. Maybe rpmlint is a good example.

regards,
Klaas