On Mar 14, 2013, at 6:40 PM, Jan-Christoph Borchardt <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> It’s good to have more review going on for the apps of course and I agree 
> with most of your suggestions.
> 
> Creating a central repo for the apps and centralizing all testing is the 
> wrong solution though I think.
We need a centralized repo for united tests and automated penetration testing. 
At least, it makes it easier to run these tests.
> Who should do the testing?
Mr. Jenkins
> We have few people as it is, and we need to work on other things. 3rd party 
> devs should happily be able to develop on their own turf and with their own 
> methods.
> 
> Reviewing boils down to: Install the app, click around, look into the 
> console. Does it work? Are there any errors? Is it fun to use?
> 
> That’s just something people need to do, and at the end great apps get the 
> »Recommended« stamp, and all apps get feedback about what was good and bad 
> and what to improve. No big scaffolding needed and especially not another 
> centralized repo as dump for all apps.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Georg Ehrke <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I would like to start a discussion about our apps review process.
>> There already is a review process for apps on apps.ownCloud.com, but imho 
>> it's not working as it's supposed to be.
>> There are no discussions about new / updated apps and it's just not working 
>> out.
>> 
>> My proposal:
>> We have to make it easier for reviewers to review apps.
>> We should create an apps.ownCloud.com repo on GitHub.
>> 
>> My approach for a new workflow:
>> If one submits a new / updated app, it will be pushed to this repository.
>> This will enable reviewers to simply take a look at the diff of an updated 
>> app and discuss changes directly on GitHub.
>> Reviewers will be able to give :+1: or :-1: to show if they would like to 
>> approve or refuse the update.
>> We will also be able to run unit tests and automated penetration testing.
>> 
>> Update apps guidelines:
>> - only one bug fix / feature update may be submitted a day
>>         - I really appreciate the afford developers put in their apps, but 
>> all reviewers are volunteers, who don't have time to approve the same app 
>> five times a day
>>         - this rule doesn't apply if the update contains security fixes.
>> 
>> I am not sure, if we should add these rules as well. Feedback please.
>> 
>> - the app must use the ownCloud Public API
>> - it may not come without unit tests
>> 
>> Other minor changes to apps.ownCloud.com:
>> If an app was not approved yet, one should be able to download the old 
>> version(, except there is a known security issue).
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Georg Ehrke
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