Making this process better about apps HOT 8 OPEN

@ameerthehacker I don't think we want to move away from storing everything in a GitHub repo, it allows for versioning/tracking/history we won't get from an S3 bucket. Steps 1-3 I already have somewhere with local code and step 4 is what I stopped working on just instead of sending to S3 I was making it auto-PR to github. I'll figure out which laptop had the code on it some time this week if I get a chance

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Yep, good point. This project has grown organically, and a web-based form for adding apps does seem like a nice improvement.

A few ideas:

• On the form, ask for repo first and automatically fill in description, website, name, etc
• Support "login with GitHub" and autodetect Electron apps owned by the logged-in user.
• We'd probably need a database. PostgreSQL, Redis, or something...

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Exactly but how should i get started? This would be a big change to the site and is that ok and doing this in one pull request does not seem right way for me so i would be great help if you can give your thoughts on this.

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Yeah honestly I feel like this would be a pretty big undertaking for an outside contributor.

@MarshallOfSound, you were working on something related to this. What came of that? Any thoughts on how it should work?

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I still have the code somewhere, I got to the point where I was inferring default values from a repository and was making progress towards automatically making a PR for the users app. When I get a chance I'll resurrect the code from whatever stash it is sitting in and push it up so others can maybe finish off the work

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Great, but will it be a problem if I can start things from scratch and start pushing minor updates step by step. This is the roadmap which I feel might work.

1. Create login with Github
2. Get the default values from repo
3. Store those things in the database
4. Upload the downloadables to a S3 bucket or something similar
5. Making sure backward compatibility for the older apps and the apps being newly added.

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Fine @MarshallOfSound I will be waiting for it

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@MarshallOfSound Is there any progress on it? What about a dashboard that will trigger the electron-bot to add the app to the repo (with a direct commit or PR) after an app is reviewed? And after the PR is merged, it'll automatically add that app to the meta files and rebuild the https://www.electronjs.org website. This repo will still be the centralised place for all apps but a Dashboard will actually make the process better and easier - both for reviewers and developers.

Also, a database might be needed, I prefer the new Appwrite Backend-As-A-Service as it's a modern and highly scalable solution.

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