Allow users to recommend apps to feature

[alwayslivid]

There are many applications that amazingly work on Haiku (which I won't analyze in this ticket), but have not received the amount of attention they deserve. In other cases, some promoted applications are completely forgotten about. This affects Haiku's image and reviewers tend to completely overlook the existence of some sets of applications, which affects our image negatively.

We should allow people to either recommend/nominate applications within the HaikuDepot client, or simply allow them to send an e-mail to do so instead. I propose that the marketing team takes up the role of reviewing these sorts of applications, if they agree to do so, because they've been doing some good work so far regarding the improvement of Haiku's image to the public.

Due to the upcoming R1/alpha3 release (which will be thoroughly reviewed by people anticipating visible changes) and because the task seems easy to tackle, I set the priority to "High".

[alwayslivid]

I considered making a pull request to the "infrastructure" repository myself, but we have not established who is currently responsible for this yet or consulted with them in any capacity.

[jt15s]

Replying to alwayslivid:

There are many applications that amazingly work on Haiku (which I won't analyze in this ticket), but have not received the amount of attention they deserve. In other cases, some promoted applications are completely forgotten about. This affects Haiku's image and reviewers tend to completely overlook the existence of some sets of applications, which affects our image negatively.

We should allow people to either recommend/nominate applications within the HaikuDepot client, or simply allow them to send an e-mail to do so instead. I propose that the marketing team takes up the role of reviewing these sorts of applications, if they agree to do so, because they've been doing some good work so far regarding the improvement of Haiku's image to the public.

Due to the upcoming R1/alpha3 release (which will be thoroughly reviewed by people anticipating visible changes) and because the task seems easy to tackle, I set the priority to "High".

I think you mean R1/beta3, but this is a good idea - though I don't think this can be implemented so quickly before the release. We'd have to implement a system to receive and accept/deny requests, as well as figuring out how apps will be displayed on HaikuDepot (both online and within the app) - will it be in a list? Some sort of carousel format with a background banner?

[pulkomandy]

Move unsolved issues to beta 4 since there is no chance of fixing them now.

[cafeina]

Rather than email, could it be like an online voting or recommendation system? That'd be even easier to integrate within HaikuDepot client, so you can, besides adding a review, to vote +1 to make it visible with a simple explanation why it should be recommended.

[apl-haiku]

There was a system of up / down voting in the early days envisaged by Stefan, but it was being maintained and not used (too few users / too few packages) so I removed it. This system could be re-introduced, but it is a matter of time and priorities.

[bruno]

The rating/voteing is there. Someone like the marketing team should check the stability of the high rated Apps. And sort them out. Other way would be cancel the featured Tab for now... Anyway: HaikuDepot GUI needs some work.

[pulkomandy]

This affects Haiku's image and reviewers tend to completely overlook the existence of some sets of applications, which affects our image negatively.

I am a bit annoyed by this "design by what the reviewers think" trend lately. We have real users who spend more than 2 hours using the OS, too, and that should be our main focus.

We should allow people to either recommend/nominate applications within the HaikuDepot client, or simply allow them to send an e-mail to do so instead.

There is a rating and comments system already. So you should have all the data you need. For more direct communications, you can also use the forum to ask people what their favourite app is.

I propose that the marketing team takes up the role of reviewing these sorts of applications

Yes please, this is the part that can be improved on. Get in touch with the people running the haikudepotserver and ask them to give you the needed permissions.

I think the conclusion here is that nothing needs to be done on the code side? And we can close this ticket?

[jt15s]

Yes, we can close this ticket. Who are the people running the server and how can we contact them?

[pulkomandy]

There is a mailing list: ​https://www.freelists.org/list/haiku-depot-web

It's mainly apl-haiku, but I think other people have admin access too.

[jt15s]

Ah ok, thanks for the tip.

[pulkomandy]

Removing from beta4 milestone unless the issue is actively being worked on.

[pulkomandy]

Closing ticket, as discussed, the code to collect user ratings is already in place, and the next steps are in the hands of the promotion team.