Discussion - Developing an automatic notification (for app maintainers) of the upcoming major release

It seems that developer are continuously struggling to know when a new version of nextcloud is being released and it drops to users to file requests to them every three months. That is my experience, but it certainly does not apply to every maintainer.

Agreed. I’m wondering if some refinement could be made that connects to the existing github issues to further improve app support before a major release is in the wild.

Thanks for your thoughts! What I’ve found is users must make the effort to test and file a request to almost every individual maintainer to request new version support every few months; the majority of maintainers forget there is a new release coming up and often appreciate the reminder. Having to keep track of so many incompatible apps is the inspiration behind any apps not yet compatible with wiki posts for every new release.

It is very possible that the apps.nextcloud.com and the built-in server app store could be refined and make this whole process a lot smoother for maintainers and admins. Currently, there is no canonical way to know which apps are supported as an overview – I suppose this seem like a good idea to implement imo. Here is a related github issue for the appstore:

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