[Owncloud] Application inclusion in next release ?

[Frank Karlitschek]

On 27.01.2013, at 18:12, Amgine <amgine at wikimedians.ca> wrote:

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> On 27/01/13 04:00 AM, owncloud-request at kde.org wrote:
>> On 27.01.2013, at 12:04, Antoine Diamant-Berger
>> <thesfreader at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>> Dear all, In a previous email, I sent about my "Library"
>>>> application, for ebooks display/filtering/access (for now) and
>>>> management (later).
>>>> 
>>>> I've reached a point where it's usable, and wonder what
>>>> criteria are applied/relevant for inclusion in an official
>>>> release, or if such an application is only intended to be
>>>> hosted in the apps.ownCloud.com appstore.
>>>> 
>> 
>> Hi Antoine,
>> 
>> great. I'm looking forward to try it. :-)
>> 
>> The idea is to be very careful with including more apps in the
>> default release in the future The main package that we release
>> every few month. We don't want to be in a situation that we have to
>> release a huge pile of unmaintained app with every release in the
>> future. Instead most of the new apps should be hosted on
>> apps.owncloud.com and can be installed on demand by the users. The
>> benefit is that you can release your app anytime you want and also
>> update it anytime you want. (I'm working on an app updater at the
>> moment.) The installation of apps from apps.owncloud.com is
>> integrated in a way that the user won't notice the difference from
>> enabling apps that are shipped with the release.
>> 
>> So we will get more flexibility for the app developers without a
>> bad user experience.
>> 
>> Does this work for you?
>> 
>> 
>> Frank
> 
> 
> 
> As a new user, I would much prefer this model *if* there is also a
> web-based updating module. It is quite difficult to keep up with
> multiple streams of updates unless there is a single UI which:
> * Checks if installed apps are up to date for the installed ownCloud
> release.
> * Checks if apps from the store are compatible with the installed
> ownCloud release.
> * Manages installation of updates (preferred, but not strictly required.)

Yes. Working on exactly that at the moment.


> 
> If this is not available, I prefer the apps known to work with the
> ownCloud version be bundled with the upgrade.
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