2012/10/24, Josef Spillner <spill...@kde.org>: > Hello Aaron, > > :: Aaron J. Seigo Mittwoch 24 Oktober 2012 >> * it is not limited to (or even focused on) software, but any digital >> asset. > > I'd like to encourage you to go further and drop the restriction to > "digital" > assets eventually. Many people use their computer to buy or share real stuff > online. There are increasingly attempts to make this possible via free > infrastructure (e.g. http://cirandas.net/search/products), all with their > own > user interfaces, but also with programmatic interfaces waiting to be > connected > to desktops. > > It should be easily possible to define asset content models and delivery > options to cover this diversity in a multi-market frontend. While for most > digital assets the delivery option may be "download" or "subscribe", for > services like cloud storage it may be "create an account" (or "replicate at > my > own infrastructure" for the better ones), and for products like used bikes > it > may be "send it over to me". All of these delivery options would be > associated > with a webpage to proceed in the most simple case, and there would be > corresponding wizards to add new offers which stay under the user's control > and are merely propagated to any selected market. > > No desktop is currently able to capture this multiplicity, but it seems > worthwhile to try.
I see what you mean, and indeed that's an interesting use case that could use a common solution. But I'm not sure if Bodega is the right place to do it. It might be stretching its scope/goals too much. -- Nicolás