App Curation Templates

[Duncan Innes]

Do you have the App Curation Templates documented anywhere?  Was wondering if I could take a read of the documentation and try my hand at building a template?

[Mawson]

Hi Duncan! I believe that community involved/led app curation is planned, but it is not available yet, as we are still kind of early in the development cycle. 

[Todd Miller]

By community do you mean the original developer if they want their app ro run on HexOS and the developer takes responsibility to maintain compatibility?  Or community as in folks like me ho will try to follow guides to get a working install, filling the template out as I go?  Or something else I can't really imagine yet since we are early in this process?  It seems the official templates need to be curated by HexOS to maintain the widest compatibility possible.  But folks with more complicated hardware or the interest to load 20+ TrueNAS compatible apps will want a more custom template or don't want to wait for templates created on a established release schedule.  Never a dull moment I guess.

[Mawson]

If the app's devs are interested and willing to supporting the curation that would be ideal, but I believe the plan is that both options will be possible.

HexOS community members doing manual setups of apps will be able to give useful information about features and settings that the curation should include, as you say.

And yes, power users are gonna power use, but the good news is that even using when installing a curated app you can still go change things away from the defaults set in the initial install, so there's really no downside!