ANEBA: Avoid Nextcloud Ecosystem BreakAge

Everybody loves stuff that just work 🤟🏽. But getting there is a long journey! Discussing with some people at the Nextcloud Conference in Berlin last week, a recurrent pain is app compatibility with each new server version. Nextcloud releases new versions every 4 months. Then, each individual app's maintainer needs to test if they work with the new version, fix any possible breakage, and manually self-report as compatible. A common reason for an app to break is that it uses APIs that are not marked as stable. So I tried to help the discussion by bringing some data with the ANEBA prototype 🦠. You can access it here: aneba.sitegui.dev With the declared goal of the project to have more apps available, pains like this will likely only grow if left unattended. A quick word about Nextcloud Nextcloud is an open source cloud platform. It can host files, photos, office documents, notes, lists, calendars, chats, you name it! It's made of a core server, some pre-installed apps (like Files) and…

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