Hi, i was wondering about best pratices regarding apps that allow in-app updates :
what would advise for/against clicking the update button in an app that has one, vs having the official YNH package updated and pushed and using the YNH update mechanism ?
It is always recommended to use the yunohost update mechanism since some updates may need changes in various ways depending on the app.
Updating from the app itself may produce complicated situations.
At the end, if an app has not been updated on the yunohost catalog and you use it actively, you may spend some time with its package to understand how it works and try to PR an update
I wish i could but github is a big messy scary monster to me… A packaging tutorial for noobies would be great but i understand it takes a stupid amount of volunteer time to craft such a tutorial for a not so great profit.
You are right. I also was very scared of github but took a long time to read every file in some packages to understand how it works. I wasn’t in a hurry, so it took me months, just looking inside the different scripts. I then tried packaging a very simple app (tinyfilemanager, that’s a one file app) and it worked after many failures that helped me understand.
Don’t be afraid.
You can try making it, just ask on the forum, one question at a time. You will get good answers as usual.
Good luck 
Begin with reading the scripts in the “scripts” folder