App contributions hall of fame

[A Former User]

Moodle over here. Hoping to learn and do more.

[girish]

This is a great thread Thanks @jdaviescoates. Off my head, you can also add the @cve-random who did jellyfin. Some apps like freshrss, gitea, syncthing were done by Dennis. He was dswd on the chat (probably one of our earliest ever users). Dennis, are lurking here by any chance? Then, @erics is doing dolibarr. Joey and @msbt helped with matrix/riot. I have to go through our app list to dig up the other names, I am surely forgetting few more.

[marcusquinn]

Good stuff - add your Paypal/Bitcoin/Gumroad links to your profiles people

[girish]

Ha, @mehdi, of course He helped with Jellyfin. And implemented our OpenVPN.

[thetomester13]

@jdaviescoates thanks for the shout out

[girish]

And @sumacinitiative did searx and limesurvey.

[jdaviescoates]

@girish @nebulon I wonder if we should add all of these existing app packagers to a new "packagers" or "published app" group or something so that when they post in the new help wanted/ offered category people will be able to see that they've already packaged an app?

[malvim]

This is a great thread, thank you @jdaviescoates for this. Also, I think your idea of tagging actual packagers is a neat one!

I've packaged a few things that are not public (just playing with stuff I've written myself), and got to "production-ready-enough-for-me" stage in a few other softwares heheh. Not sure if I'm the kind of person you're looking to hear from, but I'm here if needed heheh.

[A Former User]

@jdaviescoates hahah “most” of the packaging work on Moodle might be a bit generous. Girish was the real hero.

[jdaviescoates]

@atrilahiji said in Who here has actually already packaged an app that is already in the Cloudron App store?:

@jdaviescoates hahah “most” of the packaging work on Moodle might be a bit generous. Girish was the real hero.

I've edited to "much of the work"

[jdaviescoates]

@malvim said in Who here has actually already packaged an app that is already in the Cloudron App store?:

Not sure if I'm the kind of person you're looking to hear from, but I'm here if needed heheh.

That's not specifically what I started this thread for, but still good for people to know, thanks!

[rmdes]

Isn't there a way to add "app contributor" to one's profile ?
or maybe even roles in the Discourse forum features ? that or some kind of badges, anything that give contributors a distinction mark, I'm not sure Cloudron wants to go in that direction But I think it's good when the community can identify better who provides value to it ?

[jdaviescoates]

@rmdes yes, adding them to a group as I proposed above would do that. Nebulon and Girish have a 'Staff' badge because they are in the 'Staff' group.

[girish]

I could put them in a group but what is the expectation? To show case that they have packaged an app before? I have to look into NodeBB groups more closely but I don't want people tagging them as a group in posts saying "hey, @app-packagers can one of you step up" etc :-).

[girish]

I found https://community.nodebb.org/topic/15015/trying-to-understand-the-fundamental-purpose-of-groups/ . Maybe https://community.nodebb.org/topic/4397/nodebb-plugin-ns-awards-ns-awards-give-medals suits us better.

[marcusquinn]

@girish Groups are good for the tag next to your name on every comment or post. for Groups. Medals/Badges are also nice.

[jdaviescoates]

@girish said in Who here has actually already packaged an app that is already in the Cloudron App store?:

"hey, @app-packagers can one of you step up"

Yeah, I guess we might now want that. This is the only NodeBB forum I frequent. Is that actually a thing? Hey @staff does this tag you?!?

@marcusquinn said in Who here has actually already packaged an app that is already in the Cloudron App store?:

@girish Groups are good for the tag next to your name on every comment or post.

Yeah, my idea was simple so that "app packager" or similar would be displayed as a badge next to their name like staff is for you and Nebulon.

[rmdes]

tagging a group send a notifications to members of said group, my expectation of this badge/tag isn't to be used this way, more a recognition of their contribution, so perhaps the medal/badge is better approach

[girish]

Well, that award plugin does not work and has not been updated in 7-8 months as well. https://community.nodebb.org/topic/4397/nodebb-plugin-ns-awards-ns-awards-give-medals/142 reported similar back trace.

Oct 09 08:57:37 2020-10-09T15:57:37.662Z [4567/73] - error: Error: Cannot find module './src/emitter'
Oct 09 08:57:37 at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:636:15)
Oct 09 08:57:37 at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:562:25)
Oct 09 08:57:37 at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:692:17)
Oct 09 08:57:37 at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:25:18)
Oct 09 08:57:37 at Module.require.main.require (/app/code/require-main.js:8:10)
Oct 09 08:57:37 at /run/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-ns-awards/plugin/nodebb.js:7:31
Oct 09 08:57:37 at Object.<anonymous> (/run/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-ns-awards/plugin/nodebb.js:42:3)
Oct 09 08:57:37 at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:778:30)
Oct 09 08:57:37 at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:789:10)
Oct 09 08:57:37 at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:653:32)
Oct 09 08:57:37 2020-10-09T15:57:37.703Z [4567/73] - warn: [deprecated] requiring core modules with `module.parent.require('./database')` is deprecated. Please use `require.main.require("./src/<module_name>")` instead.
Oct 09 08:57:37 at Object.YoutubeLite.init [as method] (/run/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-youtube-embed/library.js:20:22)

I guess we can just use groups for now.

[girish]

Sorry, if this forum went up and down a bit. Everytime, I install a plugin, all sorts of random things happen I tried to add the group but some people's badges simply won't show up (@jimcavoli @mehdi and @BrutalBirdie specifically). I don't see any error at all.