Too late to suggest "Enchanted"? -- Josh Carpenter UX Designer, B2G Mozilla Corporation
On Aug 3, 2012, at 12:34 PM, Lucas Adamski wrote: > I've received no compelling arguments to the contrary, so I'm going to update > our docs to reflect this today. > Lucas. > > On Jul 30, 2012, at 2:41 PM, Lucas Adamski wrote: > >> I've received lots of feedback to the effect that using the term "Trusted" >> for an app category does not clearly >> communicate its purpose, especially relative to "Certified". After >> discussions with the webapps PM team, Jonas and >> Anant, I'm proposing that we use the term "Privileged" instead. The >> consensus is that this is closer to describing the >> purpose of this app category, while "trusted" (trust in general) is a user >> action not an application type. >> >> Other names that were discussed but decided against included: >> "Reviewed" - While technically accurate at this time, this would lock us >> into a pretty specific (and limited) >> methodology for validating these types of apps. In the future apps stores >> could employ different techniques (strong >> developer authentication and accountability, financial bonds, etc) that >> would result in equivalent security and privacy >> properties to a review process. >> "Signed" - This felt like the tail wagging the dog. We determined the >> privileges necessary for this category of >> applications first, then chose code integrity and authentication mechanisms >> commensurate to those (potential) >> privileges. It would also once again limit us to potential authentication >> approaches in the future. Finally, it may be >> confusing as signing alone generally does not permit additional privileges >> for desktop applications (outside of OS updates). >> >> Yes, it sucks to bikeshed this at this stage of the game, but its better to >> bite the bullet and make the change now >> rather than shipping with this terminology. Speaking of bikeshedding, I >> know there are some strong opinions about the >> need for a trusted app category, but this probably isn't the thread to >> reopen that discussion. I'd like to focus on >> quickly selecting the best term to describe it as currently defined >> (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Apps/Security). Thanks, >> Lucas. >> > > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
