Weeks later, I pick up on this topic again now that bionic and even disco will begin to enter the store.
Many, (most?) charms are getting either “out-dated” on the series, they often contain small but annoying errors and the lack of anything at all to be able to assess the quality of the community/recommended charms really needs some kind of plan.
I’ve hit a number of problems with charms I would just expect to work flawlessly but since often its not so easy to get them updated upstream, I end up soon having to maintain pretty much every charm in my private namespace or in my teams - effectively duplicating most of our used charms.
I’m more than willing to contribute to this process and have tons of ideas:
- Some sort of “gamification” of active charmers? Badges, achievements, levels, promotions, etc.
- Automatic rating of “compliance for charms and bundles”
- Activity ratings.
- Tracking of repository updates.
- etc. etc.
Looking forward to help.