I am happy to announce the Logitech Media Server app for NS8.
Please note that it is my first and it is currently in alpha stage, so some features are still missing. Primarily an easy way to upload you music collection directly to the music volume is missing, this can done manually. I intend to add SFTPGo for this job soon.
Please consider that people do NOT have a github account , and if they have, are not programmers, or know how to perform a ‘PR’. The community consists of many brillant people with many skills and ideas, and that any voice must be heard, without limitations. Being able to program is just another skill out of many. Just like Nethesis, many skills and working as a team get the job done.
Where or what is the ‘official’ list of categories please? I was under the impression it would be a joint effort between Nethesis and the community. Hence the sharing of a proposal list on the wiki.
Well Well it took me 10 years to accept that I am a developer, maybe you will need the same time than me Laylow, but a lot of people are able to do it, sometimes with guidance that I could do or myself if there is no chance
here the work is to edit (why not online with github) this file here, save the file and let you guided by github to create the PR
please ping me for guidance, sometimes it is easier
I think the process followed by Erik, is a great example:
discuss the new or renamed category on a thread
once reached and agreement, open a PR
if the user can’t or wan’t open a PR, just ping a dev to do it
merge the PR and the new list of category is live
The “source of truth” of the category list should be always the metadata of the Software Center because it’s the one that really does the job.
But it’s wonderful to have ad readable list on the the wiki, maybe we just need to add to the page a link to the “source”: ns8-core/core/ui/public/i18n/en/translation.json at main · NethServer/ns8-core · GitHub
It is. Is there any category that need to be added to the metdata?
Please list them here and we are going to add them.
Edit: of course, adding a category to the Software Center metadata make sense only if there is an application that uses it!
Next to my appreciation for replies and efforts, it was my point to show that the descision making process is vague like:
Currently only a few categories listed on the wiki page are reserved for future use. This to have a bit of a framework/model to prevent creating categoeries on the fly that deviate from detailed level or are too specific. An example could be a category ‘Horses’, where ‘Animals’ would be more appropriate. Hence the change from ‘Music’ to ‘Multimedia’, and the catch all category ‘Productivity’ for apps that assist in productivity unless well known for their use such as ‘Database’. Therefor ‘Web’ and ‘Office’ are not isted on the wiki page as these are too broad and not real categories. Depending on the real functionality they could be ‘Productivity’ and ’ Development’, where ‘Moodle’, a web application is categorized as ‘Education’, and NethVoice is ‘Communication’ and not ‘Collaboration’, where Mattermost is not ‘Web’ but ’ Collaboration’ and eJabberd is ‘Communication’.
It does not make me expendable.