Move some apps to a community project organisation
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Hello all,
I would like to put Stellarium app or others projects to a more community place, can it be a good candidate to move here https://gitlab.com/ubports/apps ?
Can it also benefit of Ubports weblate server as well as setting up the CI for click builds? -
I'm not sure but I thought GitLab would allow you to use CI on any project. Look Dekko gitlab-ci.yml
As per weblate, it would be great to have an instance for community project indeed. There were a try some time ago. Poeditor has some free space for open source projects.
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@CiberSheep ubports weblate community project would be great, I have not big motivation to make my app translatable otherwise.
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So can Stellarium be part of the family ?, and with a proper namespace too ( today it is me.lduboeuf ). As the big challenge for me was to port and make it usable for UT, i would to let it fly its way.
As well for sfxr, drumkit, and almost all apps that i've ported, i would be pleased to leave them part of a kind of "ubports incubator" or "ubports app" organisation on gitlab. -
@lduboeuf It's not a core app so I think it shouldn't be under that project (likewise, I think a couple of things that are there should not be there, and should be moved out separately, as they are community projects and not really under the purview of UBports Foundation).
I don't know if it makes sense to create an organization to let anyone put projects under. We'd need a list of real benefits to everyone, particularly how it will not simply become a dumping ground of randomly ported apps that nobody wants to maintain.
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@dobey yeah sure it can turn messy very quickly
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But ofc, the "UT app dev community" can create its own gitlab organisation and perhaps openstore namespace and develop apps together there... I like that idea. Lets discuss which advantages it would have, to collect UT apps in a common place...(?)
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@hummlbach yes something that can bring contributions more easily i think.
If it allows to have translations and CI easily setup, would be nice. -
When I read the proposition of Lionel I thought about the most popular fully featured apps.
For me, requirements to get into this kind of repository should be something like:
- UT app (port of existing app to UT, native app)
- Popularity the user base should be large enough to draw developers/designers to contribute
Of course popularity is hard to define, but I agree that some advanced apps should benefit from the visibility given by the foundation to help find people to contribute.
I also agree with @dobey that the separation should be clear between community apps, core apps and the OS.Problems are who could be in charge of the gitlab, how to manage access rights, etc.
I have very little knowledge of how it can be done.Meanwhile if a developer cannot continue maintaining their app, the forum is a good place to call for a new maintainer and ask for help to keep a nice project alive.
