craigix
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I've now chosen someone to do this so let's see how it goes. I'll emailed each of you who offered too.
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Tempel
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Currently, the site keeps track of who uploads each PND. If you trust the uploader, you can probably trust the app. I intend to build such "web-of-trust" stuff into my native client, so users can get trusted apps quickly, but are warned if an app is from someone untrusted.
Perhaps we could could extend this idea into a crowd-sourced verification thing. All apps appear on the site immediately after uploading, then any user of the site can "approve" it; all such approvals are listed for each app, and if someone you trust is on that list, you can feel safe in using it. After that, we just need to convince users to test apps and then give approvals.
thatgui
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But isn't that already covered by the currently implemented rating system in combination with comments ? If a pnd is rated low - take a look at the comments, if something like "turned my keyboard into a touchscreen, and suddenly Nintendo appeared on the back of the lid" comes up - you should be careful
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The voting is on-site only and therefore not in the Repository specification, or in short, the client doesn't know about it nor about the comments. And putting that in the repos spec might not be a good idea, because it would require potentional other repos to have all this comment and rating stuff too.
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Craig, this page does not work (clicking on "new uploads" in main page)"
http://apps.open-pandora.org/latestapps.shtml
http://apps.open-pandora.org/latestapps.shtml
Tempel
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Ratings are certainly useful for this, but, as averaged aggregate data, they don't say who likes it. A malicious uploader could create a dozen dummy accounts to vote an app up, but if those dozen dummy accounts are on the approval list, other users will say "I've never heard of them and therefore don't trust them". Maybe rating and approval would be combined such that adding a rating gives implicit approval of an app's safety; this would be easier for users, but give less fine-grained data, so I don't know. Whatever, this is all just an idea.
With recent updates to the PXML spec, we might have to make major changes to the repo spec. At that point, we might as well add in rating and approval information if we think they might be useful. Of course, I would leave such information as optional so not all repos would have to implement them.
craigix
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If you check Pandora apps it's now filling up nicely. We might make it out-of-beta tomorrow.
CapcomSuicide
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Great. Would it be possible to have a "Latest Apps" link please? That way I can easily see what files have been uploaded on a weekly basis.
Many thanks if possible.
milkshake
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what deams the app-store out of beta? it cant just be on how up to date it is surly has there been unseen improvments to the code?
craigix
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Yes, once it is up to date, you can also use twitter to see, which I will turn back on soon (didn't want to flood it).
I was fixing a few bugs yesterday, also there are some new features.
gruso
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Cool. Now get rid of that May 2010 news. 
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Bosbeetle
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I've been using my pandora a lot so I now will start rating the apps, I think if a lot of people do this it will become a very nice measure of 'must-have' apps
milkshake
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oh cool what bugs did you fix?
and what are the new features?
sounds good so far craig keep it up.
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And the ages old issue that you end on an error page when going to http://apps.openpandora.org and directly click "New Uploads" still ain't fixed. A workaround is first clicking in the top left corner when going to apps.openpandora.org. Though this is really not nice, since a plain apache redirect on apps.openpandora.org itself (when going there) would solve this issue!
The page you end at is: http://apps.openpandora.org/latestapps.shtml
The correct page you *should* end at would be: http://apps.openpandora.org/apps/latestapps.shtml
BTW a comment regarding a 100% wrong entry: http://apps.open-pandora.org/cgi-bin/viewapp.pl?/Emulator/snes9x4d4p.inf
The license is NOT gplv2! It is a "as-is non-commercial" kind of license.
The page you end at is: http://apps.openpandora.org/latestapps.shtml
The correct page you *should* end at would be: http://apps.openpandora.org/apps/latestapps.shtml
BTW a comment regarding a 100% wrong entry: http://apps.open-pandora.org/cgi-bin/viewapp.pl?/Emulator/snes9x4d4p.inf
The license is NOT gplv2! It is a "as-is non-commercial" kind of license.
Vitel
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Because these are development tools and better fit the category "Other - Development".
Caine
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Appplications - Development makes much more sense to me.
Stuff like firmware upgrades, runtime environments, codecs etc... I would not look for in applications, others I would
(that includes stuff like e.g. brasero and GRsync).
milkshake
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the way the official app-store works is relativly simple, there cant be lots of categories, its done this way to keep it simple for new users.
games, emulators, apps, other thats all your going to get so its hard to put certain apps into certain categories.
games, emulators, apps, other thats all your going to get so its hard to put certain apps into certain categories.
