danb35
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Ever since iX introduced the Nextcloud iocage plugin, it's been half-baked. It leaves Nextcloud in a half-installed state, requiring the user to log in to the Nextcloud instance, enter some information that's far from intuitive (and there's no good way to retrieve it once the user has closed the "installation succeeded" window), and then the user will have a complete installation.
Resolving this so that installing the plugin results in an immediately-usable Nextcloud installation is trivial, and I submitted a PR nearly two months ago to do just that. There's been zero activity on that PR. Thinking that perhaps the devs weren't notified of PRs, I submitted an issue a few weeks later (nearly six weeks ago) linking to the PR. There's similarly been zero action on that issue (which, frankly, ought to be pretty easy to resolve--such coding as was needed has already been done).
When I combine these facts with the undocumented mess that is the Asigra plugin, it's hard not to think that iX is more concerned about quantity of plugins than with their actually being useful. I'd like to be wrong about that, but I'm having trouble thinking of an alternative explanation for these observations.
Resolving this so that installing the plugin results in an immediately-usable Nextcloud installation is trivial, and I submitted a PR nearly two months ago to do just that. There's been zero activity on that PR. Thinking that perhaps the devs weren't notified of PRs, I submitted an issue a few weeks later (nearly six weeks ago) linking to the PR. There's similarly been zero action on that issue (which, frankly, ought to be pretty easy to resolve--such coding as was needed has already been done).
When I combine these facts with the undocumented mess that is the Asigra plugin, it's hard not to think that iX is more concerned about quantity of plugins than with their actually being useful. I'd like to be wrong about that, but I'm having trouble thinking of an alternative explanation for these observations.