@nebulon thanks for the update.
May I take the opportunity to make 2 requests and a comment :
the "log jam" on custom apps can easily be solved by building in to the Cloudron facility something equivalent to CCAI (open hosted custom app installer), or more specifically CCAI-P ("closed" Personal Edition installer). The process to install a custom app from a git repo link and pre-built cloudron-ajusted Docker image is relatively trivial for techs/devs like yourselves. An AppDev who is more pro than me can easily accomplish it.
The custom apps catalogue is maybe something you don't want to build into Cloudron, but I would be happy to host it, with suitable links for the user to use in their Cloudron equivalent of CCAI-P.
although I built it and am therefore responsible, I don't really like the open CCAI, because it is more complex and forces users to enter their creds on a 3rd party site, which is always a little uncomfortable.
But CCAI-P or the Cloudron re-engineered version is a very different situation. Even just adopting CCAI-P into the AppStore, maybe as an interim step, would be a huge leap forward, with relatively minimal effort from Cloudron team.
happy to make any changes to CCAI-P which Cloudron team dictate to facilitate its adoption to AppStore
Specifically about your Maps package, slightly sad to hear it is suspended for now. It is nice. But as an alternative for those wanting something similar, may I pitch Facilmap - already packaged for Cloudron and available as a custom app - as a candidate for early adoption into the AppStore.
Final comment : there has been occasional unhappiness that people cannot deploy apps in a docker-compose fashion.
I understand and actually agree with this "restriction" - the benefits of Cloudron stability etc are too important to sacrifice.
But this unhappiness pops up occasionally and can be very largely addressed by implementing something like CCAI-P into the AppStore or into the platform.
All true Cloudron fans want Cloudron to grow, and I think this would be a big part of doing so.
After that long pitch, I am very glad that you said the topic is under active discussion, and that even the initial CCAI was not stamped down immediately as being unacceptable, which I would have understood.
I look forward to news on the way forward, acknowledging that Cloudron team have 101 other things on their plate.