Hi fellow community developers. I would like to start a discussion on something that has been on my mind for a while now. Homey is a great product, and it’s still getting better even though the hardware hasn’t changed. Hard work from the Athom crew and the two founders is surely at the basis of the…

Since all community apps are open source, you can fork the respective repositories and update them regularly. In the case where a developer decides to remove their apps from the app store (although personally, I think that Athom should never accept any requests from developers to remove their apps f…

[image] robertklep: Since all community apps are open source, you can fork the respective repositories and update them regularly. But then again if you don’t know how to update the respective repositories you will have to rely on another dev. Its an endless circle.

Agreed, it’s not a simple solution :frowning:

You can always ask another developer to adopt the poorly orphaned app :wink:

Yesterday I made a fix for using IKEA rgb bulbs in the Hue app (made by Athom), after creating the pull request I was presented a legal agreement what I need a lawyer for to understand. A developer Code of Conduct would be ok to sign, but this is quite some strange appreciation from Athom if you ask…

I sometimes get the feeling that Athom considers community developers to be an adversarial bunch that they, and the users, need to be protected from :frowning:

Before that also this ball is being pushed the wrong way. Athom is forced to take this route, because of real legality reasons they had in the past. Even some community developers needed to add a license to their own open source app for this same reason. But if you don’t like it, you don’t have t…

To add on that: There have been some devs in the past, before this was in place, who deleted their repo’s and forced Athom to pull the apps from the store so people were left with less functionality… So I have no problem with it… Other agreements with Athom are possible but for that you have to cont…

[image] Another developer ask the community for support Questions & Help Donated! BUT… I think what is happening here is more proof that a sustainable solution is needed to help out community developers. Tomorrow the next developer will ask the same, and the day after an…

Yeah, like the heating schedule app for an example. But it should be an agreement when you upload an app that says Athom is allowed to use the app if the developer does not want to maintain it anymore, but it shouldnt be nessecary with a long legal agreement noone can understand…

How community developers get awarded by Athom

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How community developers get awarded by Athom

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