A true community code repository

[tgauchat (ActionTiles.com co-founder Terry @ActionTiles; GitHub: @cosmicpuppy)]

Great and important step, Mager!

I have a clarification question though:

@mager

… store code examples.

Is this repository only for “examples” or is it also meant to store “published Community SmartApps and SmartDevice Types” – NB: by “published”, I am including both “certified” and “non-certified” stuff; but stuff that has a bit of an ongoing life and implied bit of support commitment.

The latter seems redundant to folks that already have shared GitHub repositories for their individual official-like fully-fleshed out apps and devices; and I don’t know enough about GitHub forking and such to know how to avoid this redundancy.

Whereas “examples” could be just snippets, and could also be fully functional code, but these wouldn’t be maintained over time like fully-fleshed stuff.

I’m not sure if I’m describing the difference very clearly.

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And, on top of it all, code examples could also fall into the category of FAQs (maybe?), which I coincidentally just opened up a Topic on for discussion and ideas…

Genesis of a way to create and publish "Community Generated FAQs"

Continuing the discussion from Smart Alarm is here: This will make for an excellent FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions / Ad Hoc Mini-Guides) entry; Actually, at least 2 entries: (a) how to install a shared SmartApp – certainly asked and answered dozens of times probably in different Topics and READ.md’s, and (b) what are some “tablet as control or security panel” setups available and recommendations. SmartThings (@April, @Ben, @Jim, and the gang) has heard our desires for various sorts of Knowledge Bases (KB’s), Known Issues, etc., but that may or may not be redundant with Community Generated FAQs – even if some or all of such FAQ Topics are only transient as they get absorbed one by one into official ST reference resources. @April and I started a very casual discussion on where some Comm…

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Thanks,
… CP / Terry.