Marketplace/App Generator

The Marketplace has been placed into maintenance mode. It is no longer under active development. You can read complete details here.

For development and testing purposes, Marketplace needs a tool to generate many kinds of apps in various states. The current version can be run with the django management script; for example, to generate 50 apps, run ./manage.py generate_apps 50.

Current features

• Creates apps with randomized English names and icons

Proposed features

• distinct icons, like identicons: https://github.com/blog/1586-identicons
• generated previews
• installable manifest
• multiple translations for strings
• generate_users so the apps can be owned by someone
• an optional --owned-by flag so we can test scalability of a list of users
• a generate_reviews that makes reviews between 5 and 500 chars
• Generation of packaged apps
• Generation of apps in various states: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/app-types