Hi On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Dan Silivestru <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Chris and Ken, > > We would like to request access to publish ripple to the Chrome Store as an > unofficial channel for the work being done in Apache. I'm wondering if > BlackBerry would be willing to donate that account to Apache since it is > actually branded as The Ripple Emulator and does not have any BlackBerry > branding on it, nor does BlackBerry link to it from anywhere. > > I really do feel like this would be in the best interest of the community > as well as the 75k users currently using the Chrome extension in the Google > Store. :-) > > Christian, is there a way for us to propose that this kind of a release > become official? Assuming BlackBerry will agree to donate the account? I'm > not sure if a chrome extension will be treated any differently then our NPM > package is.
Assuming BB will donate it, the PMC can surely use it to publish releases. But please note, the main official channel for our releases must be a source release on our own dist servers. There are a couple of requirements which we might need to match. While the PMC members all should have access to that channel, it is necessary to say that this is not the official distribution channel, but managed from PMC members. We need to make sure people know that there is one canonical source for Ripple. That said, the Chrome Store channel would need to be conform to trademarking requirements. This should be straightforward, when the channel is on hold of the PMC. It is not so easy when BlackBerry keeps it. To my knowledge the Ripple mark has been donated, and thus the use must be agreed with [email protected]. It is most likely that due to the similarity this will not be accepted. tldr: it would safe a lot of problems if BB would donate th chrome webstore channel to the ASF. In addition, the Apache Ripple PMC would need to find a way to securely share the password and to make sure, people understand there is an official canonical source for the releases and the Web store is an personal effort from the PMC. By the way, we make something similar in log4php land. We published log4php as so called composer package. This is going aside to our normal releases. Don't know if the publisher release is more popular than the download release, but i would not be surprised. From my experience is most enough to have up to date releases and say its maintained by the PMC to give a channel credibility, official or not. Cheers Christian > > Thanks in advance, > > -- > Dan Silivestru > +1 (519) 589-3624 -- http://www.grobmeier.de https://www.timeandbill.de
