It´s now online. So who want´s to help with the reviews? :-)
Frank On 12.10.2012, at 10:25, Frank Karlitschek <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > 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. > > We have now a few improvements in our apps download system starting this > evening. > > ownCloud versions: > In the past all the ownCloud apps are shown in the ownCloud apps page > independently if they are compatible with the current ownCloud version of > not. The compatibility check was only executed during installation. We now > have categories on apps.owncloud.com where the apps developer can choose the > ownCloud version where this app is compatible with. So only the apps that can > be installed with the current ownCloud version are shown in the installer. > 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. But we still have to improve > our public api before this really works. :-) > > > Approval workflow: > It is a security problem if a users installs an untrusted app from > apps.owncloud.com that contain a backdoor. In the past we looked at the apps > and removed doubtful apps but this is only reactive and not good enough. > After several month of discussions with a lot of people we have now a new > process. > 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. > > We are looking for a team of people who want to help with the review and join > the apps review team. > Everybody who wants to help should send me a mail with the apps.owncloud.com > username and I will add review/admin permission and subscribe to > [email protected] > > I hope that we can create a community driven and non evil review process here. > > This will be online later today and I hope that this makes sense for > everybody. > > > Frank > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Owncloud mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud _______________________________________________ Owncloud mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
