On 12.10.2012, at 11:28, Christian Reiner <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ Owncloud mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
