Thanks @girish
Us, the people that install softwares through Cloudron (Cloudron catalog + Community apps) worry only about 2 things:
That each app is updated regularly
Stability & Performance
Who packages and maintains it, doesn't matter much.
If a community maintainer does a good job, great. We would gladly donate to support his/her work.
3 scenarios exist:
If the Cloudron team planned on adding couple Apps in the Catalog (which a community maintainer was faster to release on the Community list), and now the App isn't added on the list because somebody was faster.
Yes, some maintainers do a great job. But not all are up to the gold standard that the Cloudron team has. Most of those people have regular jobs, so they can't dedicate the additional time.
If a Community maintainer, stops maintaining an App. And if the Cloudron team picks to add the same App on the Catalog.
All those hundreds/thousands of people that initially used the Community version, would need an streamlined switch to the Cloudron version. Ideally without a full migration.
This is where it would be very useful if some day in the future the Cloudron team could create an option in the Community App dashboard, to just click to change the .json URL - so that the App continues to get the next updates from the Cloudron source.
A Community maintainer want's to help the community and the Cloudron team by first maintaining an App himself, but with the purpose in the future to delegate the same App to the Cloudron team, so that he can redirect his focus on preparing new Apps.