Thanks for the email Andy! I hope this will lead to an interesting collaboration.
-chris On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Andy McKay <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey there, > > This email is just to introduce dev-fxacct about a project that we are > starting on next month and that’s something we are calling Payments for > Firefox Accounts. > > The goal is to be able to allow any Mozilla property (think all the things > we are building in Cloud Services) to easily accept payments in the form of > one-off payments and subscriptions. The Mozilla property will need to be > using Firefox Accounts as its identity provider and this is a service we’ll > “attach” to that. > > This is different from Marketplace Payments which is focused on accepting > money for developers from users and things like carrier billing [1]. Whats > similar is that we won’t be processing credit cards but using a third party > provider [1 also]. > > We had an architecture kick off meeting this week and are figuring out the > best ways forwards. The goal is to keep the project as independent from the > rest of Firefox Accounts as is possible, although there’s quite a lot of > interaction that’s going to happen: how does the Mozilla property access > the payment data, can we use the as yet not build Firefox Account > Notification queue, how do we communicate events when the user is present > etc, etc... > > Anyways, we are on the [email protected] [2] mailing list and on > #payments in IRC. > > Any questions or feedback welcome as we figure this stuff out. > > Cheers > > [1] > https://wiki.mozilla.org/CloudServices/Payments/FirefoxAccounts#Compared_to_Marketplace_Payments > [2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/CloudServices/Payments#Communication > > _______________________________________________ > Dev-fxacct mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxacct > >
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