Concerns about Direction of Developer Workspace

[jody.albritton (Jody)]

@anon36505037

What about all our existing automations on apps like webCoRE which are just going to disappear overnight?

Absolutely Not.

@anon36505037

That’s all very well but what if I don’t want to run it at home on a pi? Will I still be able to take a smartapp created by a developer and run it in the ST cloud? Or will our alternative be a reliance on 3rd party servers managed by the developers of new apps?

@GRClark

And those of us not using a Raspberry Pi? What then?

@eric182

Something needs to be done to maintain accessibility to smartapps

Raspberry pi was just one example. When you publish code via the IDE today it’s being “hosted” by someone (SmartThings). We need to stop looking at this through the lenses of how this worked in the past. For the non-coders, we are trying to build a platform that does not force you to use code. For the developers we are trying to build a platform that will allow you reach more people in a published and controlled way without needing to pass around the source code.

@anon36505037

We, the community, and in particular the awesome community developers, made ST great! Is ST seriously going to throw hundreds and thousands of hours of community developer work in the bin? And break everyone’s existing setups?

And lastly, No. We aren’t throwing anything in the bin overnight. There is going to be a long transition period before all of the new stuff is even fully in “production”. Then there will be some time while we main both the new system and legacy systems.