[Owncloud] apps review and categories

[Thomas Tanghus]

On Friday 12 October 2012 10:25 Frank Karlitschek wrote:
> independent 3rd party apps for ownCloud are getting more and more important
> for us. I don´t want to ship an ownCloud in a few years that has every
> features and can do everything including making coffee. So building an app
> ecosystem around a small ownCloud core is important. Because of that we
> have to work on the tools to build this ecosystem.

Great initiative. This has caused a lot of grief for both users and bug 
triagers.

> We have now a few improvements in our apps download system starting this
> evening.
> 
> ownCloud versions:
> (...) Currently it is only possible to select one ownCloud version. In
> the future when we have apps that are compatible with different releases we
> will add options to select several different versions.

Will this be so you can both select that a download supports several versions, 
or have several downloads that supports different versions?

Since "Improvements for the “required version test” blocking apps" is on the 
list for the dev meeting I'm guessing it will be up for revision after that?

> Approval workflow:
> (...) Every new or changed app will go into review modus. This
> means that it is not downloadable from the website or from inside ownCloud.
> Then someone from the reviewer team has to check the app and approve it. It
> will be downloadable from the website and will show up in the ownCloud
> installer.

With all due respect, may I suggest that the first review will be of OC_App 
and OC_Installer? At the moment it works most of the times, but when there's 
an error, the only message the user gets is that there was an error. Some 
times you can find the reason in the log, but most times you only get a hint 
of what's wrong, then you have to grep through the source to find the origin 
of the error message and track your way back to the actual reason of the error 
message.

> We are looking for a team of people who want to help with the review and
> join the apps review team.

Can this be automated in some smart way to both help independent devs and 
reviewers? Or maybe quoting any questionable source code in the review enough?

> I hope that we can create a community driven and non evil review process
> here.

  \o/ :-)
 
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Thomas Tanghus