Hey Rock Stars,
If you follow the 8.1 development and the ownCloud development blog posts you
will probably have seen that we’re moving to a 3 tier model in the ownCloud app
store (apps.owncloud.com <http://apps.owncloud.com/>). (Official app / Approved
app / Experimental app)
The rankings are stored on the appstore and to make your app compatible with
the ranking system it is required to make a small adjustment in
appinfo/info.xml.
1. OCS ID, the id that you see when accessing an app in the appstore. The
roundcube app at
https://apps.owncloud.com/content/show.php/roundcube?content=151523
<https://apps.owncloud.com/content/show.php/roundcube?content=151523> would
have 151523 for example. Just for the record: We’re working on mechanisms to
allow delivery of different app versions from the same OCS ID so that the
rating stays. – Stay tuned…
2. Dependencies, please set dependencies on the app store interface as well as
matching ones in the info.xml code. Include the minimum and the maximum version
that your application can work on. If your targeting also the current ownCloud
version (i.e. 8.0) then please set it to 8.0 which will enforce users to
download an update once the next major release is released. This is really
important since untested applications can in the worst case scenario break
whole ownCloud instances and make users really unhappy.
For a simple example see
https://github.com/owncloud/bookmarks/blob/b50b08cd26c2a0006d23a7e9c8dd1f71a9a9697c/appinfo/info.xml#L10-L13
<https://github.com/owncloud/bookmarks/blob/b50b08cd26c2a0006d23a7e9c8dd1f71a9a9697c/appinfo/info.xml#L10-L13>
Nothing is yet set in absolute stone and we’re always fine tuning our processes
but it would be super awesome if developers could already make their own apps
compatible. (which will also make it easier for us to mark an app as approved
so that more users can get aware of it :)) - Some more thoughts can be found at
https://doc.owncloud.org/server/8.1/developer_manual/app/publishing.html
<https://doc.owncloud.org/server/8.1/developer_manual/app/publishing.html>
(we’re still tuning that page)
Best,
Lukas
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