I have many wiz lights and there is a great binding but few small technical details are causing the binding to be stuck in a pull request . Any chances to have a beta channel for addons that could let user install bindings that haven’t gone through the whole approval process? I have nothing against …

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[image] denominator: you can install them manually Yes… that is always an option but wouldn’t a one click solution be better?

[image] ottawahacker: Yes… that is always an option but wouldn’t a one click solution be better? No. That could screw up installations hence threaten stability. There’s reasons when a binding is still in beta.

openHAB used to have a marketplace which had to be removed due to it being part of Eclipse. I think I have heard talk of ‘something’ taking its place in the future. You can read about the old marketplace here as it echo’s your thoughts… [image] Distributing bindings through…

[image] mstormi: No. That could screw up installations hence threaten stability. There’s reasons when a binding is still in beta. Well I really cannot figure out why the Wiz Binding is in beta has not moved out of the pull request. I went through all the comments and feedback in the thread a…

[image] ottawahacker: it might be beneficial to the user to have options for beta bindings. I realize, it can make an installation unstable Nah. Stability is of utmost importance to anybody - getting specific beta bindings to work is not, even if they were of widespread interest, and in your …

[image] mstormi: So why don’t you just install it manually ? Oh yes I have it installed manually but this was more a generic comment about new bindings contributed to OpenHab. I did see a lot of new bindings in the recent releases so I assume this is not a major issue though.

There was the Eclipse IoT marketplace, but with the changes related to openHAB 3 this is ot supported anymore. I’ve created a proposal for a replacement. [RfC] new openHAB marketplace structure proposal · Issue #8448 · openhab/openhab-addons · GitHub There is still some discussion on how this shoul…

You can still use and submit bindings to the Eclipse IoT Marketplace for use in OH 2.5.x. Once it is approved, which takes about a day, the beta binding will show up in Paper UI after installing this… https://www.openhab.org/docs/configuration/eclipseiotmarket.html The marketplace is a very underu…

[image] hilbrand: Related to the wiz lights binding. I cant say there is a particular reason this is not merged. There was a huge backlog and with 2.5.9 we tried to work to get most bindings included. But I cant see why this partical binding was not reviewed. I see I still have some review comme…

Any chances to have a beta binding directory?

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matt1 (Skinah) November 3, 2020, 11:13pm 12

I think @hilbrand was suggesting you move it to V3 and then he would look at your binding after that is done. It is pretty easy to move them to V3 as I have done 4 bindings now and it is less then an hour to do it if its your first time. See…