[Draft/Discussion] Future: Turning this list into LinuxPhoneApps.org

Last summer, I worked on a future for this list that would be Zola-based (the code is on GitHub, and can be seen in action on alpha.linuxphoneapps.org. Ultimately, I gave up on this approach, as it felt pretty much unmaintainable (having a file per app makes changes much less swift), and some parts where unlikely to ever work well, e.g. search.

Still, I want to finally rename this list and re-use some of the ideas that you can see on the alpha page. Among the goals are:

  • Provide more information about apps,
  • have a landing page that does not load forever (by re-architecting the list or (as a stop-gap-solution just putting a different start page in front of it)
  • attract more contributions (e.g. by adding better documentation on how to contribute, and by adding a blog for regular updates about the project,
  • help users and developers out (by adding a Wiki or something Wiki-like),
  • making the .csv-files more reusable (e.g. by projects like the LINMOBapps Browser) by putting them in a separate repo.

A stretch goal is a more performant solution for the app list.

Technical solutions: Of course, some kind of CMS would be good for the additional content. I could re-use parts of the Zola solution, but is that the right way?

Therefore, let's have a discussion – if you've got nothing to add but want to help out, that's welcome too 😄