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generate valid default app discussion URL by default #1279
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First approach will not work for Talk app, as it's ID is |
the question was to adopt the default URL for apps without custom discussion URL included in the manifest - this definitely should remain untouched. using tags we have the flexibility to address "special" apps like talk=spreed by defining tag aliases. this would a manual task but for some high-value apps like talk we can do this. |
Maybe we can go this way, with a custom exception list for apps like There is not much work to be done on the code itself, the most difficult thing is to create a list of exceptions and make sure that everything will be in order |
Both ways would work better than existing solution (240 of 266 apps don't have valid dicusstion URL now). In my eyes from the app store point of view you don't need to care about exceptions. It should be a task of the developer to provide valid discussion URL and if he doesn't default fallback option must "one size fits all". This is why I prefer generic help.nextcloud.com over individual tags/categories to avoid another dependency and in case there are changes in forum structure or forum software app store must me adopted again. |
majority of the apps in the store don't have valid "discussion" URL
Follow up of #1246. While the previous bug was addressing one specific app this is about the whole app store. if the dev doesn't provide a discussion URL in the app metadata the store generates default URL pointing to non-existing category in help.nextcloud.com forum.
As result:
root cause
Apps can provide custom discussion URL using info.xml app metadata. But the "discussion" value is optional and in case the value is not populated the store generates a discussion URL pointing to the
https://help.nextcloud.com/c/apps/
+ %appid% but there is no process to create the category in the forum. additionally the forum team is going to get rid of the categories and moving to more modern "tags" approach.from App metadata — Nextcloud latest Developer Manual latest documentation
Solution
To address the situation there are two option
https://help.nextcloud.com/tags/%appid%-app
https://help.nextcloud.com
my personal preference is the second as it seems to be much leaner and allows restructuring the forum without app store changes.
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