About PPA: OS distributions have central packages repository; PPA are useful as third-party packages and alternatives.
PPAs makes easier to people for publishing software without some of the difficulties there are in central repositories. This "main and secondary places" allows projects to publish more updated packages than distribution (central) provides itself. El 16/05/15 a les 09:27, Florian Pelz ha escrit: > On 05/16/2015 08:33 AM, Narcis Garcia wrote:> El 16/05/15 a les 07:51, > Florian Pelz ha escrit: >>> On 05/15/2015 09:07 AM, Narcis Garcia wrote: >>>> How does Mozilla solve the third-party development of extensions to >>>> manage the addition and updates in addons.mozilla.org ? >>>> >>>> Is it really necessary to be a single website (the official) with the >>>> only extensions repository? Similar to app.packages, how about the PPA >>>> model apart of main/supported repositories? >>>> >>> […] > >> I was suggesting both cases to give ideas around the problem of checking >> all extensions and updates in extensions.gnome.org > > Mozilla apparently has an add-on approval process where they check the > source code [1]. The way I understand it, they also have two categories > of add-ons; one reviewed and tested more cautiously and another category > where they just glance over the source code, but the browser will > display a warning when installing. > > I don't see how PPAs solve the extension review problem. From a security > standpoint, users should not be encouraged to install third-party > software that has not been reviewed. Extensions seem to be an easy way > to spread malware if unreviewed. Besides, having a central extension > repository helps making extensions known. > > [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/AMO/Policy/Reviews > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > gnome-shell-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
