Publish for public distribution?

[RERC]

I’m working on a SmartApp and noticed that under the ‘Publishing Code’ Developer Documentation there is a Note saying “SmartThings is not reviewing submissions for public distribution at this time.”

Does anyone know if this comment is up to date / when SmartThings will start accepting submissions again? In the IDE there’s still the option to go through the Publication Request, but I don’t want to spend the time if SmartThings isn’t going to be looking!

Thanks!

[marktheknife (Mark)]

They posted this in the forum earlier this year. No indication that they’ve publicly changed this policy.

Important changes to Community Code Submissions and Developer Discussions

As we, SmartThings, grow we are continually evaluating our priorities as a company. Since the beginning of this year, we’ve been going through that process and seeing what is important for SmartThings to be successful in 2017. As part of this new year we are working on some amazing new features and product, some of which directly impact developers. I personally am very excited about these initiatives. If you have joined the past few developer calls these are the initiatives I keep saying we “can’t talk about”. Part of prioritization and new projects is making tough decisions regarding current processes that we have not done a good job of supporting or do not lend themselves to making our vision a reality. In order to keep focus on these new and exciting initiatives, we are diverting focu…

[Cobra (Andy - United Kingdom)]

@RERC

but I don’t want to spend the time if SmartThings isn’t going to be looking!

But the community will!
If all the developers here thought that then we wouldn’t have some of the best smartapps available…

[marktheknife (Mark)]

Great point!

The fact that ST won’t publish it so that it would show up in their mobile app in no way means that OP shouldn’t consider sharing it among this community of developers and power users.

The ST IDE still allows for integration with GitHub repositories, which makes it pretty easy for other users to install and update community-developed smartapps and device handlers.