App eligibility rubric

[Botspot]

Did you make an app and want it added to Pi-Apps? Read these guidelines.

• The app needs to be useful for people who use their Raspberry Pi as an everyday, desktop computer.
  • Apps that are meant to run on a headless Pi will not be accepted. (Rosetta@home, pihole, etc)
  • Apps that are not designed for everyday GUI users won't be accepted. (command-line file servers, webservers, etc)
• The app needs to be legal to download and use. (No piracy allowed)
  • Paid apps are allowed. If your app has a free demo mode (like Doom 3), please ask the user if they want the demo mode or the full version.
• The app should be appropriate for all ages. After all, Raspberry Pi is designed with children in mind.
• Applications that support both ARM32 and ARM64 are preferred, ARM64 ONLY applications are tolerated, and new ARM32 ONLY applications will likely not be accepted
• The app may not have any malicious content. Any attempt to upload viruses, zip bombs, or any sort of software will result in a swift ban from all pi-apps repos and a report of such malicious activity to GitHub.
• Even if your app follows all of these guidelines, there still may be a reason we decide not to add it to the official Pi-Apps repository. If that happens, you can still take advantage of Pi-Apps's features by telling your users to import the zip file for your app.

Note about Package Apps (including Flatpak Apps):

Pi-Apps was never intended to be a GUI for apt. The only reason we have package-apps is to avoid limiting the options for a given task. For example, if you need an image editor, the best option may be an apt package, so it's best to include them for comparison rather than giving script-apps an unfair advantage.

In other words, package apps need to compliment preexisting script-apps. A proposed package-app in a completely new category will not be accepted.

[Botspot]

This really isn't an issue.

Closing. Something similar to this, minus the "points" system will be added to the README at some point.

[Botspot]

Note to self for future reference:

Hey Botspot, you can view issues that can be closed due to inactivity, by clicking here: https://github.com/Botspot/pi-apps/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-asc
(It's the issue list sorted by least recent activity)