uRepo

Hi all,

I’ve been steadily working away on a new independent 3rd party repository and its just about ready to go.

Site
http://www.urepo.org

Download
https://github.com/zag2me/repository.ure….urepo.zip

Features
– 2 click Add-on upload for developers
– Add-on metadata checks and suggestions
– Add-on artwork checks and suggestions
– Instant publishing
– Add-on reporting (any user/dev/moderator can report)
– Add-on category tagging
– Screenshot support
– Banner and Logo support (not supported in kodi yet)
– Moderation options (approve/unapproved)
– User Add-on collection lists

Description
The initial idea of this Repo was to upload all the stray Add-ons on the forum but after many many discussions with the Kodi team, I decided to only upload my own Add-ons to prevent any confusion and start the ball rolling.
In the future I hope to involve other developers and show what its capable of, I think you will be suprised how much of an advance it is on the current systems
Hopefully this will serve as a demo of my vision of an online Add-on “publishing platform” that is developer centric rather than moderation centric. Basically the idea is the system is as automated as possible while still allowing moderation and control.
I expect much progress and innovation as this develops that will hopefully feed back to the official repository, and other sites too.

Rules
For now we will need to follow the official repository rules to prevent any confusion or drama.
Also no Adult or Pirate Add-ons.

Development
The site is MySQL/PHP based. It has its own repository builder written in PHP similar to “addons_xml_generator.py” script.
The code is open source of course, just pm me if you are interested in it but maybe wait a bit for me to clean it up.
Basically the site reads a zip file, unpacks the zip, analyzes the addon.xml file, checks it against some miniumum requirements, copies the artwork, encodes the zip again, and inserts a record into the Add-on db. Extra metadata and Artwork can then be uploaded by the user. The site then rebuilds the repository(manually at the moment).

Future Plans
– Hope to test with other developers
– JSON API
– More moderation options
– Code review
– Auto submission to github or official repo somehow
– More getting started guides

Testers
If you are an Add-on developer who has a new Add-on you would like to test with the submission process, please sign up on the site and try the upload feature. Obviously it will need match Kodi rules.

Submission process is as follows, upload your zip. Press submit