Hi, On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Laszlo Papp <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey, > > There are a few things that I would like to comment on, regarding the > Plasma Active App Store project. I know it may be a bit presumptuous, > and perhaps intrusive, at this stage, but please bear with me. > > 1) I have tried to understand all the bits behind the App Store, and > my realization from around two years experience in the mobile field > was that this was one of the services for which we worked on the Open > Collaboration Services Standard [1]. It was designed with this use > case in mind, and is already used for very similar use cases, like the > maemo download service, and recently the Apps4MeeGo community store > (the term is misleading, it is not just about MeeGo). You can find > the relevant service(s) here: > http://apps.formeego.org/ocs/providers.xml > > From what I have understood, and please do feel free to correct me, > the server, developed by Aaron, established a "custom protocol" for > communication between the server and client, based on json. I was > wondering if any consideration was given to OCS for this ? I have not > seen any discussions on the OCS mailing list about the drawbacks of > OCS for this task, if any. Please do not take it offense; I am just > curious, as one of the OCS contributors. I would personally be happy > to improve the standard if it lacks somehow for the Plasma Active App > Store purposes. We, as contributors, have already invested a decent > amount of time to satisfy this use case, and I personally feel that my > experience within this area has been wasted, since we were not even > contacted . :/ > I don't have a personal opinion of this, but I recalled that Aaron had highlighted some reasons that this was done (not exactly OCS, but oopendesktop.org), you can read about it here http://aseigo.blogspot.in/2011/01/fire-up-synchrotron.html > > 2) My other (personal) opinion is about how the development has been > happening. I may be wrong about this, but my impression from the > sprint was that it happens behind the scenes. Is this for a business > reason? It means that both the Open Governance and closed Business > models are present. I am not saying this is wrong, just curious since > I find the Plasma Active project promising in general. It would be > much easier to provide feedback and suggestions and gain contributors > in this early phase. I am just afraid that once it is out, it will be > hard to change certain issues, and can slow down the process as a > result of losing some potential participants. > > 3) It was nice to see a demo about the Ui draft from Marco during the > sprint in Darmstadt, thanks again for that. I am looking forward to > seeing the publisher client or website in the future! > > Best Regards, > Laszlo Papp > > [1] > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/open-collaboration-services-draft > _______________________________________________ > Active mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active > Cheers, -- Shantanu Tushar (UTC +0530) http://www.shantanutushar.com
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